A fear of needles is a common reason for avoiding vaccines, even among many adults. Now researchers have come up with a ...

The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change ...

Octopuses can be fooled into thinking a fake arm is actually their own. When scientists in Japan pinched an artificial ...

The most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – and one of the most consumed drugs in the US – could be doing a lot more than ...

Would you dab perfume on a six-month-old? Paint their tiny nails with polish that contains formaldehyde? Dust bronzer onto their cheeks? An investigation by the Times has found that babies and ...

Over the years, the guidance on eating eggs has been wildly inconsistent, with some studies suggesting that the popular ...

However, giving birth, and looking after a newborn, would be far more difficult in zero gravity. After all, in space, nothing ...