You may hear a heartbeat in your pillow for a few reasons – most likely it's normal blood flow amplified by your head’s position. If you’re on your side with your ear against the pillow, and you have ...

You could argue that even some of our solo organs are really two squished together. The brain has two hemispheres, for ...

Two severed fins bearing the tooth marks of other killer whales have raised a troubling question: are some orcas hunting ...

Or is honesty the best policy? These are never easy decisions to make and have dominated conversations for decades. However, ...

Contrary to popular belief, babies aren’t born seeing only in black and white – their colour vision is limited, though. Newborns can detect some intense colours, especially red, but it’s as though the ...

Sixty-five per cent of the exploratory dives into the deep have taken place within 200 nautical miles of either the US, Japan ...

This phenomenon, known as lunar recession, is caused by the complex gravitational relationship between Earth, our tides and ...

There’s a worrying problem with the ‘ Higgs field ’ – the energy field that gives particles their mass. It seems to be dangerously close to having an inherent instability. In the absence of particles, ...

A near-complete fossil from Patagonia has finally cracked open the mysterious evolutionary history of one of prehistory's strangest dinosaur groups ...

A plume of dust may arrive in the UK this week, leading to dramatic sunrises and sunsets, as well as possible blood rain. The ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Studies are bolstering the idea that air pollution could increase your chances of developing dementia. But there are ways to ...