A daily pill developed by the US pharmaceutical company Lilly may become a convenient alternative to injectable drugs like ...

Common medications for keeping blood pressure down, including ACE inhibitors, diuretics and calcium channel blockers, also ...

A nearly complete skeleton found in a cave in France belonged to a group known as the Palaeolithic dogs and its skeleton ...

Mounting evidence suggests there might be two separate types of the world’s fastest-growing neurological condition. Can this ...

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and ...

The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better ...

A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space. But the device has a ...

As quantum computers mature, they will be transformational. But there are good reasons why we don’t yet know exactly which ...

Whenever there’s even a slight chance that an exoplanet shows signs of biological activity, people understandably get excited ...

Cellulose, the main component of paper, can be turned into clear, waterproof objects such as cups that are almost ...

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

Researchers have used a fungus and bacteria to create rigid, living structures similar to bone and coral, which could one day ...