The long-term rise in IQ scores might be coming to a halt, but we should focus on improving social conditions rather than ...

A guide to walking, a look at the world’s Google searches and a deep dive into the secrets of our DNA are some of the topics ...

The World Health Organization sought to quell worldwide fears over the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius and ...

A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are down to polyphenols and ...

Only 3 per cent of those with polycystic ovary syndrome reach perimenopause by the age of 46, which may allow them to ...

A device made using a tiny bead floating in a beam of light can measure extremely small pressures and could help find a ...

Most people think the multiverse is just about "what-if" scenarios – other versions of you where you took that job in another city or turned left instead of right. But to a physicist, the multiverse ...

Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in the earth could be growing it naturally. Now one scientist says he has proof he’s found them ...

Could there be life on other planets, and if so, what would it look like? Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell is hunting for alien ...