NHS eyes revolutionary pill that could HALVE the risk of death for prostate cancer patients Hormone therapy taken by prostate cancer patients could halve the ri... read more
A giant reptile with a 56-feet-long body that weighed in at a whopping 40 tonnes prowled the ocean of what is now Nevada some 246 million years ago. The creat... read more
There are just two weeks left until the world’s largest technology conference kicks off in Las Vegas, but the lingering coronavirus pandemic could dampen ... read more
Meat-eating animals including leopards, foxes and wolves are more susceptible to CANCER than herbivores like sheep and antelopes, study reveals Researcher from ... read more
If you’re terrified of spiders, your fear may actually be rooted in an aversion to scorpions, a new study claims. In experiments, researchers showed live ... read more
A new hovering lunar rover has been developed by scientists, who say it will be able to levitate by harnessing the moon’s natural charge. The device, whic... read more
Deer in Ohio have been infected with Covid-19, likely due to transmission from humans, a new study reveals. Scientists at Ohio State University tested 360 fre... read more
The seemingly unyielding edifice that is the Matterhorn — one of the highest summits in the Alps — actually moves back and forth about once every two second... read more
Books designed for children may be perpetuating gender stereotypes, a new study warns. More than 240 books written for children five years old and younger were ... read more
The world’s thinnest Christmas tree measuring just one atom thick has been developed from graphene, scientists reveal. At only a third of a nanometre (o... read more
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and almost all life 66 million years ago, sparked two years of darkness on the Earth, a new study has revealed. Soot f... read more
The inventor of 3D-printed ‘suicide capsules’ is planning to create a body implant for people with dementia that would kill its user if they forget ... read more
Rudolph might not be needed this year, after the Met Office revealed the Northern Lights will be particularly strong around the North Pole on Christmas Eve. T... read more
People working in agriculture, construction, hospitals and other jobs that expose them to formaldehyde may suffer cognitive problems, a new study reveals. Forma... read more
Is THIS how our planet formed? Earth evolved from collisions between smaller ‘planetary embryos’ in the inner Solar System, study claims The Earth a... read more
Boston Dynamics first showed off Spot, the most advanced robot dog ever created, in a video posted in November 2017. The firm, best known for Atlas, its 5 foot ... read more
Need cheering up? Attend a Christmas service! Taking part in a carol concert makes you happier, study claims Taking part in a Christmas carol service makes you ... read more
A black hole eruption spanning 16 times the full Moon, around 12 million light years away from us, has been revealed in a new image by astronomers. The image,... read more
Amazon Web Services (AWS) crashed on Wednesday morning for nearly two hours, marking the cloud-computing service’s third outage this month. Problems with ... read more
DNA analysis of 35 people buried in a Neolithic tomb in the Cotswolds has revealed that most were descended from four women who all had children with the same m... read more
Astronomers have found up to 170 ‘rogue’ planets of a similar size to Jupiter in a group 420 light years from the Earth – the largest group of... read more
The life-saving ‘Mexican wave’: Hundreds of thousands of fish in Mexico work together to produce waves to protect them from predatory birds, study f... read more