The first of a new generation of drugs that works in a completely different way to existing ones has been approved. Columnist Michael Le Page says this approach could transform treatments for all kind ...

A drug advisory committee in the US has recommended approval for several experimental peptides. But there have been no ...

An eye implant and a pair of high-tech glasses that enable people with a severe form of vision loss to read have been ...

Over 1.4 million years ago, a group of eight ancient hominins walked across a shallow mudflat, but their footprints don’t ...

Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole straying far from the centre of its galaxy using light from a star being ...

Climate campaigners are angry at reports that the UK government is set to allow oil and gas drilling projects to go ahead, ...

As you get older, your body’s response to food changes significantly. But by making the right changes to what you eat from ...

An increasing number of studies have linked ultra-processed foods with depression, anxiety and even dementia. Columnist Helen ...

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, ...

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients ...

To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing ...

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...