Two kinds of diet seem to work better than taking medication in addressing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a trial has found.

Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert ...

Cocaine and morphine hijacked neural responses in the brains of mice, which resulted in them consuming less food and water ...

The vertebrae of Vasuki indicus, a snake that lived 47 million years ago, suggest it could have been as long as 15 metres ...

A mathematical model of a particle that remembers its past so that it never travels the same path twice produces stunningly ...

Measurements of sulphur isotopes in Io’s atmosphere show that the moon may have been volcanically active for its entire ...

Cryptographers are scrambling to understand an algorithm that could undermine the mathematics behind next-generation ...

Mounting evidence suggests our galaxy sits at the centre of an expanse of nothingness 2 billion light years wide. If so, we ...

Feedback pores over new research that suggests "robot-human boxing" would reduce brain injuries by reducing the number of ...

In the foundations of a Maya temple, researchers found the charred bones of royal individuals – possibly evidence of a fiery ...

Cloud seeding almost certainly did not play a significant role in the flooding on the Arabian peninsula this week – but the ...

Investigations of the paradoxical link between tinnitus and hearing loss have revealed a hidden form of deafness, paving the ...