We suspect the high δ¹⁵N values seen in Neanderthals reflect routine consumption of fatty animal tissues and fermented ...

A fear of needles is a common reason for avoiding vaccines, even among many adults. Now researchers have come up with a ...

The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change ...

Octopuses can be fooled into thinking a fake arm is actually their own. When scientists in Japan pinched an artificial ...

The most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – and one of the most consumed drugs in the US – could be doing a lot more than ...

However, giving birth, and looking after a newborn, would be far more difficult in zero gravity. After all, in space, nothing ...

Over the years, the guidance on eating eggs has been wildly inconsistent, with some studies suggesting that the popular ...

In a recent study, we tested pine wood chips and biochar – a form or charcoal made from heating rice husks in a limited oxygen chamber, a process known as pyrolysis – and found they could remove ...

When they do happen, heart tumors can be quite serious and more aggressive than other cancers. A study analyzing more than ...

Children with a restrictive eating disorder show recognizable changes in brain structure, according to a new study.

Children whose mothers had higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy scored better on tests of memory, attention and ...

Despite what the movies tell us, dinosaurs probably didn't roar at their prey. It's more likely that they chirped like birds, ...