People who follow a gluten-free diet in the hope of it calming their irritable bowel syndrome may actually be able to ...

Employees who trialled a four-day work week for six months said they slept better and felt that their ability to work ...

Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic – and this practice can also help remove ...

Octopuses can be tricked into thinking that a fake arm is part of their body, suggesting they have a sense of body ownership ...

Physicists would dearly love to find new particles, but there's no sign of them in colliders like the LHC. Now we have found ...

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

In children with anorexia nervosa or other restrictive eating disorders, changes in the brain’s outer layer don’t seem to be ...

Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us ...

A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – they may be capturing dark matter for extra fuel ...