In childhood, the thymus is known to play a critical role in developing the immune system. When the gland is removed at a ...

There's been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming ...

The author John Steinbeck said: "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after ...

Carbon is a gregarious little atom, bending over backwards to link with a wide variety of elements in what is collectively ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...

Dementia is proving very difficult to treat with medicine, but perhaps there are secret, brain-boosting ingredients already ...

Research has found clothing can harbour many infectious pathogens – including germs such as Staphylococcus aureus (which ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

Age might well be just a number, but for a plant in Utah known affectionately as Pando, it could be a digit that leaves all ...

In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only ...