Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

A start-up has worked out how to preserve the brain after death – paving the way for immortality in a distant ...

One in 10 homes tested in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands have dangerous levels of benzene because of slow leaks from gas hobs and ovens ...

Infections are increasingly being linked to a higher risk of dementia. In the latest research, scientists have found that ...

CERN is working on building an antimatter delivery service. The project passed a big test by successfully transporting 92 ...

I am at the American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, the world’s largest annual meeting of physicists, with 14,000 ...

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun, rather than a single disc ...

Catching a comet in the process of falling apart is difficult, but a coincidence let astronomers see one in more detail than ...

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...

Are we evolving to be more stupid? Humans have a relatively high genetic mutation rate, which has been thought to be driving down our physical and mental fitness – but columnist Michael Le Page finds ...

On Tuesday, CERN will transport antiprotons on a truck for the first time, testing the plan to deliver antimatter by road to ...