We’ve been missing an important contributor to ageing, says columnist Graham Lawton. Ultra-processed foods are known to be ...

A survey of 100 commercial foods for dogs and cats revealed that PFAS chemicals appear in numerous brands and types, with fish-based products among those with the highest levels ...

An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but ...

After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory ...

Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

A new show at the Royal West of England Academy brings together a series of works that interweave art and science ...