Certain patterns of brain activity during awakening correlate with a lower likelihood of the bleary-eyed state called ‘sleep ...

Surgeons have developed two low-cost techniques to revive the hearts of people who wish to donate their organs after they die ...

Emerging dangers are reshaping the landscape of nuclear deterrence and increasing the threat of mutual annihilation.

Long-awaited results suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting diseases caused by mutant ...

A study in mice finds that a high-sucrose diet during youth has long-term implications for learning and brain connectivity.

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

Island life has given the world’s largest bats their gargantuan wingspans, which can reach nearly 2 metres 1.

A bacterially produced molecule circulates in the bloodstream and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by hijacking ...

The next generation of deep-brain stimulation automatically corrects the precise brain waves that create symptoms of ...

Mental illness cost Imtiaz Zafar almost a decade of his academic life. Now it motivates him to help find effective treatments ...

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...