One of the astronauts aboard the International Space Station is undergoing a “medical situation”, forcing NASA to bring the ...

Evidence is mounting that specific gut bacteria are linked to sleep conditions, which may open the doors to dietary ...

A man with auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which gut microbes produce intoxicating levels of alcohol, has been ...

The ice-covered island may be strategically important, but it's unclear that it could be a commercially viable source of ...

Calculations show that injecting randomness into a quantum neural network could help it determine properties of quantum ...

Cutting down boreal forest and sinking the felled trees in the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes ...

A standard industrial knitting machine has been modified to produce fabrics from tungsten wire coated in gold, which are used ...

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

Tree bark has a total surface area similar to all of the land area on Earth. It is home to a wide range of microbial species ...

An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies ...

Satellite photos show meltwater on the surface of iceberg A23a collecting in an unusual way, which may be a sign that the ...