A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the population in Svalbard seems to ...

The ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus is increasingly being linked to conditions like multiple sclerosis and lupus. But why do ...

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Perhaps surprisingly, the salt concentration of the oceans has been fairly constant over at least the past 500 million years ...

While snakes and ladders is purely a game of chance, there is a way to add some strategy, says mathematician Peter Rowlett ...

What is it about the human physiology that leads us to use pillows, and does anyone know when we first came up with the idea?

When birds sit quietly on a branch for long periods during winter, they are not usually sleeping but conserving energy, ...

The amount of rainfall in the southern Amazon basin has declined by 8 to 11 per cent since 1980, largely due to the impact of ...

Using a superconducting quantum computer, physicists created a large and complex version of an odd quantum material that has ...