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 ...

Colliding galaxies can create a beam of focused microwave radiation known as a maser, and astronomers have discovered the brightest one ever seen ...

New insights into the causes of migraine is prompting a fresh look at a drug target that was sidelined 25 years ago ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...