Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to ...

Prolonged grief disorder affects around 1 in 20 people, and we're starting to understand the neuroscience behind it ...

Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic libraries full of glass tablets packed with data ...

Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is improving, for the good of the whole family ...

Isabel Woodford is an independent journalist who writes for the Financial Times, the BBC, and other leading outlets, with a focus on current affairs. She previously reported for Reuters in Mexico. She ...

A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organi ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly ...