Cosmos

An international team has conducted what it says is the first in-depth, wide-scale study of the genomic history of ancient ...

Scientists have created a “stealth” red blood cell that camouflages its immune status, meaning it could potentially be transfused into ...

Different learning difficulties do not, as previously thought, correspond to specific regions of the brain, new British research suggests. Instead, ...

Cannabis not only induces forgetfulness, it also opens the door for false memories, according to new research. And that’s serious, ...

A new study from Oxford University, published in the journal Human Microbiome, has linked gut bacteria strains and diversity with people’s personalities. That ...

Reforestation is an important part of tackling climate change, but it seems we need to think carefully about where we ...

Researchers have shown that electrical stimulation to the skull can starve brain cancers of vital nutrient-rich blood, opening the door ...

Finding out you have cancer is bad enough, but to then have to go to hospital for a painful and ...

It’s a question they might have asked for different reasons in the ’60s, but neuroscientists from Stanford University in the ...

It's long been a dream of many to build robots that look and act like humans. After all, there's a ...

With renewed attention to implementation and regulation, new plant breeding technologies such as gene editing could make an important contribution ...

For several years it has been broadly acknowledged that agriculture in Europe was first established in the Anatolian peninsula in modern day ...

Today, the burning question isn’t whether Mars might once have been habitable – at various times in its distant past, ...

The strain of brewers’ yeast used to make beer, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, derives from versions used over thousands of years to ...

Research under way in Melbourne is showing that exercise can, literally, make your body younger. … [Researcher Sarah] Voisin tells ...

An international research team has discovered several variants in tortoise genomes that potentially affect six of the nine hallmarks of ...

Once upon a time, prehistoric humans and our ancient Neanderthal cousins met and procreated. Except, that ‘once upon a time’ ...

For 140 years, scientists have been trying to explain what Charles Darwin described as “an abominable mystery”. Darwin was bothered by evidence ...

Hallucinations linked to vision loss from macular degeneration are caused by abnormally heightened activity in the visual cortex of the ...

Scientists have discovered that shallow, lagoon-like environments were the cradle for vertebrate evolution, giving rise to our distant ancestors. A ...

The butchered remains of extinct elephant birds could push back the date of human habitation of Madagascar by 6,000 years, according ...

A series of bizarre events and biological errors over evolutionary history were responsible for the intoxicating medicines found inside the ...

[I]n Bavaria, the Jurassic-aged limestone deposits yielded a near-perfect fossil of Archaeopteryx. It had blade-like serrated teeth and many other features ...

New research shows that Neanderthals were able to start fires using stone tools. The findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, present ...

Depending on who you listen to, medical cannabis is either a rising star in the world of therapeutics or an ...

Continued applications of the most widely used insecticides in the world must be urgently restricted, say 233 scientists in a tightly ...

One great hope – for vitamin fans and researchers alike – is that dietary supplements could prevent the worsening of ...

For years now a band of dedicated scientists has been quietly building a case to redeem the reputation of MDMA ...