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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

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

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

Colossal Biosciences, the company that says it resurrected the dire wolf, now says it has developed artificial eggshells so ...

Some people experience vivid, incessant dreams that leave them feeling exhausted the next day, with researchers calling for ...