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Prolonged grief disorder affects around 1 in 20 people, and we're starting to understand the neuroscience behind it ...

Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic libraries full of glass tablets packed with data ...

Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to differences in their mothers' diets ...

Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it's often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is improving, for the good of the whole family ...

Running 170 kilometres over mountainous terrain caused people's red blood cells to accumulate more age-related damage than those of less ambitious athletes ...

A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according to the company developing it, but the results haven't convinced other scientists ...

An ultrastable laser could enable extremely precise timing and navigation on the moon, and the cold, dark craters near the lunar poles would be the ideal location for it ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important - and overlooked - stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence is revealing their pivotal role ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organisms ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better tackle the problem the next day ...