If you love chocolate, you LOVE chocolate - there's no in between. You think about it all the time. You'd eat an entire bar if it didn't affect your waistline.…

If there is one thing we remember from Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan it's that becoming a professional ballerina is a grueling, beautiful journey. Not everyone can do it, and those…

Scientists will use two methods of harvesting ambient energy to power marine sensors on elephant seals. Current research is limited by the sensors' short battery lifespans or because data is…

Researchers have assessed the extent to which geographical barriers affected genetic variation among Anopheles darlingi populations. Such barriers may greatly influence the approaches used by scientists and physicians to control…

Magnetometers have a social network where they talk about the weather, researchers have discovered. The research team used data from over 100 individual magnetometers located at high latitudes in the…

A new study confirms that historical temperature data records constitute reliable evidence of climate change. A computational scientist, carried out a new analysis of the data following suggestions that it…

A moderately inflated rubber balloon pricked with a needle bursts into two large fragments. However, if you inflate it until it bursts spontaneously, you get dozens of shreds, new research…

Violence and conflict in areas affected by war, such as Gaza, can have a devastating effect on the mental health of the children exposed to it, according to research.

Eggs have a protective ‘checkpoint’ that helps to prevent DNA damaged eggs being fertilized, new research suggests. Damage to an egg’s DNA can result in infertility, birth defects and miscarriages.…

Fragments of cancer DNA circulating in a patient’s bloodstream could help doctors deliver more personalized treatment for liver cancer, researchers report. The new research may help address a particular challenge…