Fungi are critical to human life and the planet. They recycle nutrients, helping keep our soil and plants healthy; they store ...

Inhalers that combine relieving breathlessness with preventing it seem to be the most effective option for reducing asthma ...

The rhythm of an infant's brain activity seems to put them in constant learning mode, whereas that of an adult may allow them ...

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere ...

Novels need a gripping story to stay popular as the decades pass, but it seems that other less-obvious factors may also ...

Scientific evidence is lacking to support the US government’s decisions to caution against using a common painkiller in ...

Huntington’s disease has been successfully treated for the first time using a gene therapy, which may be available in the US ...

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Using the quantum states of particles of light as currency could make for unforgeable transactions, and a new experiment has ...

Particles similar to axions, the leading candidate for dark matter that has long eluded detection, may have already been ...