A massive study among 645,626 individuals in the United States, UK, and Mexico has found a rare gene variant that appears to offer “substantial protection” against...
A record-breaking heat wave that hit the western United States and Canada at the end of June would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change,...
Thousands of medieval Islamic tombs in eastern Sudan were arranged in hard-to-detect patterns, with sacred “parent” tombs hosting subclusters of emanating burials, according to archaeologists who...
Converting agricultural land to forests is one way of boosting rainfall and counteracting some of the effects of climate change, according to a new study –...
When the Cassini-Huygens probe dove through the salty plumes belching from the interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, it made an unexpected detection: a collection of compounds...
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. If...
Around 269 million people worldwide use drugs each year. Often forgotten in this story is a problem of basic biology. What goes in must come out....
For four years between 2015 and 2019, roughly 2,500 Icelanders were involved in two major experiments to see how a shorter working week would affect productivity....
You’d be forgiven for being confused about whether or not you should eat fat. For a long time, people were told to stay well away from...
Scientists will soon begin proper clinical trials to see if poop transplants really can help people recover from COVID-19. The decision was spurred on by curious...