Richard Fisher is a senior journalist at the BBC, the author of a non-fiction book called The Long View, and a lecturer in science communication at University College London. He is also a speaker, ...

We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're ...

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Tests with rodents suggest an mRNA vaccine in development offers protection against three strains of Ebola virus, including ...

Vaccine misinformation, nurse and doctor shortages and crowded living arrangements may be behind soaring rates of diphtheria ...

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed ...

Women appear cognitively normal for almost three years longer than men after their brains start to develop Alzheimer’s ...

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and ...

Some people experience vivid, incessant dreams that leave them feeling exhausted the next day, with researchers calling for ...

Adding olivine to the ocean could remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and a pilot project in New York state found no signs of ...

Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier ...