A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

Interval cancers are aggressive tumours that grow during the interval after someone has been screened for cancer and before ...

Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the population in Svalbard seems to ...

Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are at the forefront of a health revolution. Originally used to treat diabetes, then obesity, these GLP-1 receptor agonists – drugs that mimic a hormone that reduces ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

The ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus is increasingly being linked to conditions like multiple sclerosis and lupus. But why do ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

While snakes and ladders is purely a game of chance, there is a way to add some strategy, says mathematician Peter Rowlett ...

Perhaps surprisingly, the salt concentration of the oceans has been fairly constant over at least the past 500 million years ...

Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He ...

When birds sit quietly on a branch for long periods during winter, they are not usually sleeping but conserving energy, ...