A study published in 2022 found a tenuous but plausible link between picking your nose and an increased risk of developing ...

Desserts also behave differently once they reach the gut. Compared with foods rich in protein or fat, sugary and carbohydrate-based foods empty from the stomach quickly and require relatively little ...

A molten lava world cloaked in a thick envelope of vaporized rock could be the strongest evidence we have yet of a rocky ...

It's one of humanity's scariest what-ifs – that the technology we develop to make our lives better develops a will of its own ...

The borderlands of black holes ought to be chaotic spaces where the rate at which matter is drawn across into oblivion is ...

Mathematics is a "science which requires a great amount of imagination", said the 19th-century Russian maths professor Sofya ...

A newly discovered exoplanet has to take the crown for the weirdest world we've ever spotted out there in the Milky Way galaxy.

Dozens of laboratory mice allowed to roam a large outdoor enclosure returned to a typical level of mouse anxiety after just one week, researchers observed, suggesting that 'rewilding' may prevent ...

Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit.

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On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port ...

A compound produced by gut bacteria could play a vital role in managing and preventing type 2 diabetes, according to a study ...