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

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

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

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

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

A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according ...

The psychedelic DMT has been linked to improved mental health outcomes before, but now, scientists have shown it reduces ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...