We all take a lot of breaths every day – it's sort of essential to living – so the science of what we're actually taking into our lungs is hugely important. That air might contain two to three times more in the way of fungal spore fragments tha

Nature - Sympathetic inputs drive hair greying in stressed mice.

They were the largest animals to ever walk the Earth: sauropods, a dinosaur clade of such immense size and stature, they're sometimes dubbed 'thunder lizards'.

On Monday, researchers from Japan's Osaka University announced the successful completion of a first-of-its-kind heart transplant.

A new telescope built to study the Sun has released its first images, and they are just breathtaking. They show the surface of the Sun in the most exquisite detail we've ever seen - revealing convection granules the size of Texas, and tiny magnetic

Editor's note (2 Feb 2020): A previous version of the chart in this article incorrectly reported the case-fatality rate of H1N1. It is 0.02 percent. The city name of Marburg has also been misspelled; we regret the error.

Mathematicians have finally figured out the three cubed numbers that add up to 42. This has settled a problem that has been pondered for 65 years: namely, can each of the natural numbers below 100 be expressed as the sum of three cubes?

The old well doesn't look like much - a wooden crate-like object, dilapidated, crumbling a little. But according to new research, it's really special. A tree-ring dating technique has revealed that the oak wood used to make it was cut around 7,275

Life as we know it wouldn't exist without it, but compared to other liquids, water is just a freaking weirdo. And, as it now turns out, it's even weirder than we thought. Scientists in Japan have demonstrated that water has not one, but two differe

Scientists have cultivated plants from date palm seeds that languished in ancient ruins and caves for 2,000 years.

US scientists have succeeded in genetically editing the immune systems of three cancer patients using CRISPR, without creating any side effects, a first for the tool which is revolutionizing biomedical research.

In 2018, Canadian scientists unveiled a handheld device that "prints" sheets of artificial skin directly onto the wounds of burn victims.

With the right patience and finesse, you can get soap bubbles to grow to enormous sizes. At their most gigantic, with surface areas approaching 100 metres squared (over 1,000 square feet), these globules can get large enough to hold entire cars wit

Half of the 1 million animal and plant species on Earth facing extinction are insects, and their disappearance could be catastrophic for humankind, scientists have said in a "warning to humanity".

Newly created artificial atoms on a silicon chip could become the new basis for quantum computing.

On 14 February 1990, the Voyager 1 space probe shut down its cameras for the rest of eternity. A mere half hour before that, it recorded one final image.

Sifting through a soup of genes sampled from many environments, including human saliva, animal poop, lakes, hospitals, soils and more, researchers have found hundreds of giant viruses - some with abilities only seen before in cellular life.

A nanoscopic speck of Moon dust, roughly as wide as a human hair, can now be analysed in high resolution atom by atom.

When photographer Kristian Laine went out to the Great Barrier Reef near Lady Elliot Island to photograph some turtles, manta rays, and sharks, he wasn't expecting to stumble across the only known pink manta ray in the world.

Not all volcanoes spew fiery molten rock. On rare occasions, in the cold dark winter, the shores of Lake Michigan can also belch up eruptions of slushy ice.