A ring of asteroid debris could have orbited Earth for tens of millions of years, and perhaps even have altered the planet's ...

Snoring is often viewed as harmless, at least to the snorer, but we are now uncovering its potentially serious effects on cardiovascular health. And finding ways to stop is surprisingly challenging ...

Subscriber-only recorded online event.  Kate Scholberg, American and Canadian neutrino physicist, delves into the world of ...

The number of people worldwide directly killed by antibiotic resistance will rise to 1.9 million a year by 2050, according to ...

Most of the ancient underground aqueducts that enabled humans to settle in the world’s hottest and driest regions have been ...

The human brain goes through significant changes during pregnancy with few regions untouched, according to the first ever map ...

Artificial intelligence has more in common with ants than humans, says Neil Lawrence. Only by taking a more nuanced view of ...

The long-standing mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so huge so quickly could be solved by decaying dark matter ...

Loneliness was long thought to cause health conditions ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular disease, but new research ...

A species of leaf chameleon newly named Brookesia nofy was discovered in a patch of coastal rainforest, a highly threatened ...

The most complete catalogue of clouds found on Mars has revealed the planet’s dazzling array of atmospheric phenomena, including some unlike any seen on Earth. Mars’s atmosphere is thin and ...

We're finally pinning down the mechanisms that drive obsessive-compulsive disorder, revealing a complex combination of ...