Two young people are dead and 20 are receiving treatment after a meningitis outbreak at the University of Kent.

The human body is sometimes said to host 'two' brains – the big one in your skull and the mini version in your gut.

Far away, alone in a crater on a planet inhabited only by robots, NASA's Perseverance rover explores a dry landscape that was ...

The cannabis plant contains two powerful compounds that may reverse fatty liver disease in mice without causing any ...

The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly driven by the greenhouse gases we humans keep releasing into the ...

For decades, dinosaurs, especially the Tyrannosaurus rex, have captured the imaginations of the public and paleontologists alike.

The phrase "eye stroke" has recently appeared in news reports about a very rare side-effect of weight-loss injections.

A large umbrella review has found no strong evidence to date that medicinal cannabis can effectively treat several mental ...

The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world's most powerful particle ...

High-fat, low-carb ketogenic diets are controversial, but a new study in mice suggests they really may work to improve health ...

Worldwide peanut production results in more than 10 million tons of waste piling up each year in the form of discarded shells – but now scientists have discovered a method of turning this biomass into ...

A brief blaze of gamma and X-ray light that lit up Earth telescopes in November 2024 may have come from an unexpected source.