The findings suggest that people who eat a greater variety of plant-based foods each week have a more diverse gut microbiome ...

A simple blue stain could force trees into giving up their memories of cold summers and volcanic winters, a recent study reveals, giving researchers a new way to precisely reconstruct ancient climates ...

Here's one more reason to think about cycling to work: a new study has found people who commute by bicycle tend to have fewer ...

Psychologists call it the dark triad: an intersection of three of the most malevolent tendencies of human nature – psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism.

When the 'wood-wide web' was first described in the journal Nature in 1997, our view of plant life took on a utopian glean.

Forced to run a labyrinth of carbon atoms uniquely arranged in twisted stacks, electrons do some rather peculiar things.

As I've grown older and experienced the vagaries of my ageing memory, I've often reflected on the possibility of a miracle ...

Could the bacteria in your mouth predict whether you are at risk of dementia? Emerging research suggests that the bacteria living on your tongue and gums may affect how the brain works and how it ...

Children of divorced parents are substantially more likely to have a stroke later in life, according to a new study of more ...

Hard-boiled, soft-boiled or poached. Scientists have studied how to cook the perfect egg and have come up with a new recipe ...

This led them to the conclusion that antibiotics, antivirals and anti-inflammatory drugs were all associated with reduced ...

Last month was the hottest January on record, blitzing the previous high and stunning climate scientists who expected cooler ...