Scientists believe they've discovered a 'ghost' plume for the first time. Rising from Earth's core beneath Oman, the ...

Faecal transplants have been used to treat a wide array of conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, Parkinson's ...

If you've been on social media lately – perhaps scrolling in the middle of the night, when you know you shouldn't but you ...

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

Researchers have discovered how a surface protein on brain cells, called Aplp1, can play a role in spreading material ...

One of the first brain cells shown to make insulin is the neurogliaform cell. These live in a brain area important for ...

We know microplastics are finding their way deep into our bodies, such is their ubiquity in the world around us, but we're still figuring out the possible health impacts.

It's likely that there would not be many people left within 70 or 80 years, rather than 100, due to shortages of food, clean ...

Once upon a time, the fishing town of Gansbaai on the South African coast was something of a mecca for shark-spotters – so ...

"No other telescope has been able to detect both real-time changes in the sky and faint or distant objects at the same time ...

The contraceptive pill desogestrel has been linked to a small increase in the risk of developing an intracranial meningioma ...

Ghrelin, produced primarily in the stomach, signals that you are hungry, while leptin, which is produced in the fat cells, tells your brain that you are full. Even one night of restricted sleep ...