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 ...

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed ...

Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier ...

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 ...

After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in her controversial call to ...

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