Women who think they may be pregnant in the weeks before travelling to the Olympics in Brazil later this year should consider abandoning their trip because of the ...
Women who think they may be pregnant in the weeks before travelling to the Olympics in Brazil, should consider abandoning their trip.
Can Sir Richard Branson really offer us rides into space without damaging the planet?
A new study might lead to the invention of new types of ‘structural’ colours that never fade in sunlight or run in the wash.
A pioneering study has found that the human brain has dedicated nerve cells that respond only to the sound of music.
Controversial attempt to gene-edit IVF embryos hailed as scientific breakthrough of the year
The two scientists who discovered that the neutrino has mass have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
Fossils indicate 'Homo naledi' was equipped for walking and swinging from trees, as well as tool use
The genetic manipulation of human IVF embryos is to start in Britain for the first time, following a licence application by scientists.
Populations of marine wildlife have plummeted by half over the past 40 years, a major report has found.
Researchers are fine-tuning the technology of motion capture for film so that it can portray the movements of animals realistically.
Two questions are prompted by this astonishing find - and it's one of the most staggering finds in the history of palaeontology.
Britain may need to change its IVF laws to allow the genetic modification of human embryos so that scientists can use a gene-editing technique that could eliminate ...
Britain may need to change its IVF laws to allow the genetic modification of human embryos.
Climate scientists are predicting that 2015 will be the hottest year on record 'by a mile'.
Psychology has long been the butt of jokes - especially from academics working in 'hard' sciences such as physics.
Scientists can write the final chapter in the story of Knut, the polar bear who drowned in his outdoor enclosure.
The first three-dimensional computer model of how a solid tumour grows, mutates and evolves has been developed by scientists.
Scientists have developed a flu vaccine that works against more than one strain of influenza virus.
The World Health Organisation has established a network of centres around the world to help combat the influenza virus.
Humans are the world's 'super-predator', killing other species more efficiently than other top predators, says a study.
Thousands of prehistoric mammoth tusks are being dug out of the melting permafrost of the Arctic.
Scientists have developed a way of storing vast quantities of information for up to a million years in a single molecule of DNA.
Experts have developed a way of storing vast quantities of information for up to a million years in a single molecule of DNA.
The universe is slowly dying. That is the depressing but intriguing conclusion of astronomers.