It would be tempting to assume there's nothing much of note happening on Mars, but that dusty rusty planet has a lot of interesting stuff going on.

Bacterial meningitis is once again in global headlines, with recent cases linked to the University of Otago in New Zealand and a fast-growing outbreak at the University of Kent in England.

Early signs of Alzheimer's disease may be hidden in the way a person speaks, but it's not yet clear which details of our ...

When a virus jumps to humans from another species, it can seem like a supervillain bent on world domination – especially if ...

Athletes commonly use short periods of heat exposure – typically seven to 14 days – to prepare for competition in hot climates. But we wanted to know whether longer-term heat exposure, over four to ...

Comb jellies – very simple, gelatinous creatures best-known for their hypnotic underwater light shows – first appeared in ...