WHEN Jess Wade isn’t working in the physics laboratories of Imperial College London, she is fighting to make science more accessible for all. Her flagship project is to create and edit articles on ...

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

A bold plan to pump seawater over the frozen Arctic Ocean could offer humanity a final chance to save the region’s vanishing sea ice. Field trials conducted this year in the Canadian Arctic to thicken ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects ...

Five different groups of predatory dinosaurs independently evolved disproportionately small arms, and it seems they did so ...

Work, illness, divorce: life is riddled with stressors out of your control. But research is revealing new ways to cope with ...