Researchers have discovered that endangered killer whales in the Pacific Northwest use tools made from kelp to groom one another – a behaviour never before seen in marine mammals. In a new study ...

Researchers have developed a prototype infrared contact lens that could allow people to see in the dark – or with their eyelids closed. The cutting-edge prototype, developed by the University of ...

You’re just dropping off to sleep and you hear that familiar sound of the carpet being excavated by your canine companion. So, why do dogs dig the carpet and circle before grabbing some zzzzzs? The ...

People on vegan diets may be missing key muscle-building nutrients, even if their total protein intake seems sufficient, claims a new study. Researchers in New Zealand found that some long-term vegans ...

A new study suggests hearing loss could raise your risk of heart failure – and reveal early warning signs of trouble More than 60 million people globally suffer from heart failure – a condition where ...

If you’re reading this, you are probably fairly certain that you’re conscious. You likely assume that your loved ones, your less-loved ones and even your weird neighbour are all conscious too. They ...

Scientists love to put things in categories. In the natural world, life is divided into several categories: animals, plants, fungi, protists (such as algae or amoebas), bacteria and archaea ...

If you have lower levels of a type of cholesterol nicknamed ‘bad’ cholesterol in your blood, you may be less likely to develop dementia – and vice versa. That’s according to a recent Korean study ...

The age of the Universe can be derived by measuring its current rate of expansion and then extrapolating backwards. In practice, however, we also have to know how that expansion rate may have changed ...

Not everyone experiences terrible hangovers. But for those of us who do, research shows that the genes we inherit from our parents partly explain how often we experience them and our chances of ...

Researchers have discovered two large ancient cities, a breakthrough that sheds more light on civilisations that existed over 1,000 years ago. Found 2,000 metres (6,561 feet) above sea level in ...

This doesn’t happen very often, so brace yourselves: mathematicians have declared a new class of shape – but it’s not like your typical circle, triangle or square. So what is it? The ‘shape’ is one ...