Extreme heat will reach dangerous levels – even for younger people – across an area equivalent to the size of the United States if Earth's global warming hits two degrees Celsius, scientists warned on ...

Many of us have witnessed unusual and even anti-social behaviour at an airport or on a flight. These may range from benign ...

Hanging the washing out to dry in the garden has been a rare sight these last few months, with winter storms bringing ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.

Arizona's magnificent Grand Canyon is painstaking result of the Colorado River's current wearing away the planet's surface ...

Cannabis is increasingly accessible in many countries, including several that have recently relaxed prohibition laws or legalized recreational use for adults.

The energy resolution limit (ERL) is a mix of parameters representing the economics of a quantum system within a sensor's ...

Postmortem brain samples collected last year contain considerably more microplastics than similar samples collected nearly a decade ago, a new study has found, indicating the tiny synthetic particles ...

For centuries, people have claimed that their aching joints can predict changes in the weather, often reporting increased discomfort before rain or cold fronts.

Medical and recreational cannabis use is now legal in many parts of the world, but questions remain about its effect on ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

A paradox at the heart of quantum physics has been tested in an extraordinary fashion, pushing the boundaries of human ...