Medical clowns, who play with children in hospitals, may help them be discharged sooner by reducing their heart rates ...

You may be guilty of accelerating up to intersections and slamming the brakes at a red light – this common habit can generate significant carbon emissions each year. But programming modern cars ...

Saline drops and sprays have already been linked to reduced cold symptoms in adults and now a study suggests they also work ...

Bands of fast-moving wind that blow west to east around the globe play a crucial role in weather – a poleward shift in parts ...

Clouds can trap heat or reflect it away from Earth, making their impact on global warming extraordinarily hard to predict.

Human blood stem cells have been made in a laboratory for the first time, which could significantly improve how we treat ...

On a recent expedition, researchers braved summer storms in northern Greenland to learn the secrets of the ancient peoples ...

Breaching is a common behaviour in a wide range of sharks and rays, and it is thought to have functions related to courtship, ...

The largest pterosaurs, ancient reptiles that were the first vertebrates to master flight, may have mostly soared while ...

Cyanobacteria exposed to shorter days are better at surviving cold conditions, showing that even simple organisms can prepare ...

Information on faces recognised, voice commands and internet searches can be extracted from an Amazon Echo smart assistant ...

From Michel Houellebecq to Booker-longlisted Richard Powers and Rachel Kushner, there is plenty of excellent science fiction ...