Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a fraction standing by the end of the century ...

Scientists have used a specially engineered virus to help track the brain changes caused by psilocybin in mice, revealing how the drug could be breaking loops of depressive thinking.

Blinking handles essential eye maintenance, and we usually blink multiple times a minute without thinking much about it, though you might be more self-conscious about your own after the results of a ...

Death Valley, part of the Mojave Desert stretching across California and Nevada, is known for its extreme weather – but in ...

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever ...

Blazing colors and enticing scents may be showy, but they're just one part of the toolkit plants use to lure in pollinators.

Poop anxiety, bashful bowels, shy bowel syndrome: they're all terms for what's medically known as parcopresis or difficulty ...

The NHS is facing severe pressure this winter as flu cases surge earlier than usual, with some calling it "super flu".

Sleep is central to the proper functioning of the immune system, which in turn has implications for mental and physical ...

Despite the rapid advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, the humble human brain still has the edge over ...

The discovery of a Viking-age burial in Trøndelag, Norway, has presented archaeologists with a historical mystery.

Despite countless programmes and initiatives, rates of entrepreneurial intention – a marker of how willing people are to ...