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 ...

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

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

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

A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma ...

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

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 ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

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