A river pollution campaigner has described part of the River Thames as a "death trap" after E.coli was found in a sample of water he collected. James Wallace of River Action UK said he found 2963 E.coli colonies per 100ml from water ...

As people get older, they revise the age they consider to be old upwards

Living longer without breeding allows them more time to help offspring and grand-offspring

Exclusive: study will be aimed at improving medics’ working lives by reducing frequency and repetition of courses

Academics at the University of Galway found that people who take part in meetings on apps like Zoom or Teams become more fatigued when they can see themselves on screen

EEG monitoring showed that fatigue levels were significantly greater during the times participants could view their own image.

Pharmaceutical equipment firms are funding NHS staff and training while promoting sales

Labour has also rejected European Commission’s proposal which would have allowed young people to live, work or study in the bloc

Aliens could be purple and not green, a new study claims. Astronomers are expanding the search for extraterrestrial life beyond the conventional green pigments. Recent research by scientists from the Carl Sagan Institute and Cornell University has d ...

Analysis of 600 gardens shows wilder lawns feed caterpillars and create breeding habitat

Deaths from record temperatures in Mali reportedly led to full morgues turning away bodies this month

Rate for better-off 18 to 45s rose from 12% to 15% but fell 24% for working class women while proportion of male smokers was stable

People in routine and repetitive jobs found to have 31% greater risk of disease in later life, and 66% higher risk of mild cognitive problems

A new study says climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that’s not warming, with the poorest areas and those least responsible for heat-trapping gases taking the biggest monet ...

Cost of environmental damage will be six times higher than price of limiting global heating to 2C, study finds

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is at the forefront of European Union citizens’ minds, with defense and security seen as key campaign issues ahead of the June elections, according to a study published Wednesday

March study found 11,000 American kids hospitalised between 2019 and 2022 after accidentally ingesting dietary supplements that often resemble candy but are not intended for them

By studying whales, researchers hope to develop filters to any future extraterrestrial signals humans may receive

Health Foundation report also predicts people in poorest areas will be three times more likely to die by the age of 70

But truancy and illness-related absences can be reversed with sleeping habits and strong family ties, study suggests