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Nutrition scientists have unlocked an entirely new way of thinking about why certain foods are good for you and others are harmful. Here's what to eat to function at your best ...

What you eat has a surprising impact on the pH of your body with wide ranging impacts on your health. But getting the balance right isn't as simple as eating fewer acidic foods ...

Are you terse and informal when speaking to an AI chatbot? If so, you might be getting worse answers than if you used more formal language ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as the star is consumed from within ...

Claims that one quantum computer is better than another rest on terms like quantum advantage or quantum supremacy, fault-tolerance or qubits with better coherence - what does it all mean? Karmela Padavic-Callaghan sifts through the noise ...

Record-breaking ocean temperatures have caused widespread bleaching and death among warm-water corals, which could have far-reaching consequences ...

The strong nuclear force may abruptly loosen its grip on the fundamental particles that make up matter at a special "critical point" - researchers are now getting a clearer picture of when that point is reached ...

Applying a daily serum that contains extracts of a tropical plant improved hair density and strand thickness in just 56 days ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities may have led to our vulnerability to mental illness ...

A beautifully preserved skeleton found on the UK's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new species of the marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs ...