A deadly fly once wiped out across North America has resurfaced in northern Mexico – and it’s creeping ever closer to the US ...

Women’s running shoes might be holding them back from reaching their full athletic potential, according to a recent study. Published in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, the paper found that there ...

Psychology is rife with myths: you only use 10 per cent of your brain; you’re either left-brained or right-brained; your brain has a ‘learning style’. Culture is littered with ideas that would have ...

To ask about the health benefits of moving nearer a golf course has the whiff of someone desperately trying to use scientific research to convince their partner that living next to Gleneagles is a ...

Clubbed fingers – where the tips become bulbous and nails curve downward – can be a subtle sign of underlying disease. They can be associated with low oxygen levels in the blood over time. While heart ...

That annoying flicker in your eyelid? It’s usually nothing to worry about. Known as myokymia, this harmless twitch is linked to tiredness, stress, caffeine or screen time. Sometimes women wonder if it ...

The spider-tailed horned viper contains the raw ingredients of two of the world’s most common phobias: arachnophobia (fear of spiders) and ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). The only way it could ...

Losing weight could be as simple as replacing some of the sausages, beef and bacon in your diet with legumes, according to a recent study. Scientists at the University of Helsinki instructed 51 ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has fascinated stargazers for millennia – but now we can see it as never before. From the crystal-clear skies above the AstroCamp Observatory in Nerpio, Spain, three ...

Scientists have, for the first time, directly visualised and counted tiny protein clusters in the human brain that may be the earliest triggers of Parkinson’s disease. The clusters – called ...