Inside the body, a 24-hour rhythm, known as the circadian rhythm, quietly coordinates when we sleep, wake, eat, and recover.

This suggests that when the South Pole-Aitken impactor hit, it gouged deep into the Moon, generating intense heat. This ...

A new investigation of the early Universe led by Poland's National Centre for Nuclear Research has just found that there may be an interaction between two of the most elusive components of the cosmos.

Homosexual behaviour in primates has a deep evolutionary basis and is more likely to occur in species that live in harsh environments, are hunted by predators, or live in more complex societies, ...

When tissue is severely damaged, surviving cells can respond in a concentrated burst of biological repair known as ...

A tiny chunk of dead star just 731 light-years away has presented astronomers with a shimmering puzzle: a powerful, glowing ...

Mathematics also features in a 1998 novella by Ted Chiang called Story of Your Life, which was adapted into the 2016 film ...

An iceberg that calved from the Antarctic ice sheet in 1986 is dramatically turning blue as it rapidly heads towards total ...

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

Tuberculosis has plagued humanity for thousands of years, and despite medical advances that can now help us prevent and cure ...

A UK man who is thought to be Britain's youngest dementia sufferer recently passed away from the disease at only 24 years old ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and ...