Researchers have identified genetic material from a vast range of organisms contaminating the shroud, said to have wrapped ...

Even if the conflict in the Middle East ends today, higher fuel, fertiliser and pesticide prices will lead to a food shock in ...

Cognitive decline, mental health and heart disease are all shaped by the deep links between heart and brain – with major ...

One in 10 homes tested in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands have dangerous levels of benzene because of slow leaks from gas ...

A female sperm whale has been filmed giving birth for the first time, supported by 10 adult females who lifted the calf out ...

The physics of plant-based milks is strange. Researchers are only now beginning to understand it, and they hope that doing so ...

The same principles that help astronauts stay strong in microgravity can help us all resist the slow collapse of ageing – and ...

Both artists and astronomers are, in a way, translators. They convert what we can see into a story we can tell. In Cosmos: The art of observing space, a new exhibition at the Royal West of England ...

CERN is working on building an antimatter delivery service. The project passed a big test by successfully transporting 92 ...

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows ...

The remains of dogs from more than 14,000 years ago have been found in Turkey and the UK, revealing that domesticated animals ...