The drug rapamycin has been held up for its life-extending properties, but whether this treatment – or fasting – actually ...

Ukraine has responded to a war it didn’t start by creating an industry it doesn’t want, but could the nation's ...

Fins washing up in the North Pacific suggest that orcas from one subspecies are snacking on other orcas, and researchers ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, may have been even more instrumental to the system’s evolution than we thought, forming ...

A cream that directly disrupts the underlying causes of the skin patches seen in the condition vitiligo will be made ...

People often focus on the bad side effects of vaccines, but they can have some great side effects too, says columnist Michael Le Page. They don’t just protect us from contagious diseases but can also ...

Duplicating the information held in quantum computers was thought to be impossible thanks to the no-cloning theorem, but researchers have now found a workaround ...

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...

How we feel about a night’s sleep can have a bigger impact on mood and grogginess than actual hours of rest. Here’s how to ...

An examination of bones has revealed one of the largest prehistoric mass killings known in Europe, with women, adolescents ...

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

Horses use their larynx to make two sounds simultaneously, so they are effectively singing and whistling at the same time ...