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Three thought experiments involving "demons" have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Our gut microbiome has a huge influence on our overall health, but we haven't been clear on the specific bacteria with good versus bad effects. Now, a study of more than 34,000 people is shedding light on what a healthy gut microbiome actually ...

The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study supports its success ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an "impossible" laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run in a world powered purely by imagination ...

An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancient humans to light fires some 400,000 years ago ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we're ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

As Australian teenagers lose access to social media, observers say there are still many unknown questions about the ban, which came into force on 10 December ...

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering to farming - but was beer really more important to us than bread?

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound psychological impact upon us ...

Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called melanosomes, which are similar to those that create the bright colours in birds' feathers ...