The Met Office has issued a rare ‘red warning’ for temperatures which are expected to reach 39C in parts of the South and South East

Scientists say the "hyperparasite" preys on "zombie fungus" known to infect insects before subjecting them to a gruesome death.

In the most comprehensive radio study of Europa thus far, astronomers bolster what's already known about the icy moon, and then some.

Certain food preservatives might silently be raising our blood pressure and heart disease risk, recent research has found.

An international team in South Africa has pinned the earliest known use of fire by Homo erectus back to between 1.07 and 1.79 million years...

The outbreak occurred much earlier than the Middle Ages and had an unexpectedly high mortality rate.

Three drugs in particular have become household names not because of their original uses, but because of what researchers later discovered t...

The fault lines have reached “unprecedented levels,” according to the study.

The bias certainly appears to exist, but scientists still have no idea why it exists.

The research has significantly updated the understanding of when specific volcanic events happened in Northern Ireland

For centuries, the tale has been passed from generation to generation: how the Irish giant Finn McCool built the Giant’s Causeway in North...

Neuroscientists are discovering that spending time with others may be a basic biological necessity, like need for food or water.

GLP-1 drugs help fight the harmful inflammation that raises the risk of chronic disease

New research seems to bust a common hypothesis for how a Venus flytrap's trap begins to close, while supporting another.

Researchers traced new undersea ecosystems of soft coral, sea anemones, sponges, and more to large rocks and mineral deposits ferried by ice...