Bird flu viruses are a particular threat to humans because they can replicate at temperatures higher than a typical fever, ...

Andrés Alfonso-Rojas has analysed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago, and have remained giants ever since.

Research into parental support needs is informing Cambridge Children’s Hospital’s commitment to provide a ‘whole family’ approach to care.

Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human ...

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago, in 1525. It still influences how we think ...

Researchers have discovered that genes underlying specific behavioural traits in golden retrievers - from trainability to ...

A lab-based screening has discovered over 150 common industrial chemicals, from pesticides to flame retardants, that have a ...

Human-driven changes to landscapes worldwide are ‘thinning out’ the ecological services supplied by wild birds, eroding the ...

Chancellor, Professor Deborah Prentice, has been to the North East of England to visit schools in Tyneside as part of a mission to connect with areas ...

In 1925, Payne-Gaposchkin became the first person to earn a doctoral degree (PhD) in astronomy from Harvard University. Her ...

A new report involving hundreds of literary creatives from across the UK fiction publishing industry reveals widespread fears ...

The sketches and text show Leonardo understood the fundamentals of friction in 1493 ...