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Anyone eating Lanmaoa asiatica could have visions for days of tiny people running and jumping around ...

Exclusive: Analysis offers 'smoking gun evidence' that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male ...

Scientists are trying to recreate the biology that lets animals survive months without food or water, in hopes of making deep-space travel possible ...

Extreme exposure should be avoided, but we've gone too far the other way - enjoyed safely, the sun can have enormous health benefits, says author and MIT journalism fellow Rowan Jacobsen ...

As the rights of nature are increasingly being recognised, the Scottish Association for Marine Science is the latest organisation to make the ocean a trustee ...

Palaeontologists warn before auction at Sotheby's in New York that super-rich collectors are harming research ...

Ian Sample hears from professor of evolutionary biology Dr Toby Kiers about how fungi could be the key to our planet's survival ...

Detection of erythrulose, also found in raspberries, shows that compounds key to life can form in interstellar space ...

The psychotherapist Amy Morin says uttering a 'short, positive sentence' can offer the cognitive reset we need. The idea makes me cringe - but then I can barely cope with returning defective trousers, writes Emma Beddington ...

Alignment will be one of the prettiest naked-eye sights of the month, if the sky is clear ...