In childhood, the thymus is known to play a critical role in developing the immune system. When the gland is removed at a ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Dementia is proving very difficult to treat with medicine, but perhaps there are secret, brain-boosting ingredients already ...

There's been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming ...

Carbon is a gregarious little atom, bending over backwards to link with a wide variety of elements in what is collectively ...

The author John Steinbeck said: "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after ...

The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...

Research has found clothing can harbour many infectious pathogens – including germs such as Staphylococcus aureus (which ...

Overall, these results suggest frequent nightmares may be one of the earliest signs of dementia, which can precede the ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

Age might well be just a number, but for a plant in Utah known affectionately as Pando, it could be a digit that leaves all ...

In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only ...