One of the scientists who's spent the most time studying it, neuropsychologist Akira O'Connor of the University of St Andrews ...

Across the last 200 years, Antarctica has been copping a whole lot of mercury pollution, despite humanity's best efforts to ...

In the deep, dim ocean, a world of eat-or-be-eaten, lighting up may seem like a counterintuitive survival strategy.

The researchers looked at US health insurance data covering more than 10.3 million kids with one sibling. This data was mined ...

Some forgotten memories may be less like a deleted computer file and more like a dusty book buried deep in the stacks of an ...

It has been described as the "largest biomechanical event on Earth", an impressive feat of sharp plunges, turns, and barrel ...

Unseen rivers are surging through the sky, nourishing the world with an "invisible yet vital" source of atmospheric moisture ...

The fact that you, or I, or any living creature, is here at all is a series of astonishing strokes of luck stretching back ...

Polystyrene production is growing rapidly each year, with market research suggesting it could reach some 62 million tons by ...

Eating meat is consistently shown to be one of the worst things we can do for the environment as consumers, due to the ...

The observations suggest the whirlpools are an almost ubiquitous feature of the boundaries between magnetic structures and ...

There are many biological processes that naturally slow down or falter as we age, and a growing number of studies are looking ...