A deadly fly once wiped out across North America has resurfaced in northern Mexico – and it’s creeping ever closer to the US ...

Women’s running shoes might be holding them back from reaching their full athletic potential, according to a recent study. Published in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, the paper found that there ...

Psychology is rife with myths: you only use 10 per cent of your brain; you’re either left-brained or right-brained; your brain has a ‘learning style’. Culture is littered with ideas that would have ...

To ask about the health benefits of moving nearer a golf course has the whiff of someone desperately trying to use scientific research to convince their partner that living next to Gleneagles is a ...

Clubbed fingers – where the tips become bulbous and nails curve downward – can be a subtle sign of underlying disease. They can be associated with low oxygen levels in the blood over time. While heart ...

At each stage in our lives, we dwell in a certain corner of social media – and the 40-plus mums around the table at my Friday morning coffee club are no exception. Our feeds, once filled with ...

The spider-tailed horned viper contains the raw ingredients of two of the world’s most common phobias: arachnophobia (fear of spiders) and ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). The only way it could ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has fascinated stargazers for millennia – but now we can see it as never before. From the crystal-clear skies above the AstroCamp Observatory in Nerpio, Spain, three ...

From air fryers to spiralisers, kitchen gadgets come and go. But the newest multi-purpose countertop cookers are vying to be more than just the latest must-have consumer item. Thanks to their ...

Where did life on Earth begin? That sounds like a relatively straightforward question. Surely on Earth began... well, on Earth, right? We know this planet had the right conditions for life to arise, ...