Endometriosis causes physical, sexual and emotional pain.About 190 million people around the globe have endometriosis, including one in 10 American women, but there has historically been a deafening silence about the disease...
Infections from a parasite which can cause long-lasting, severe diarrhoea has seen an "unprecedented and ongoing" surge across the UK. This increase in infections has been ongoing since mid-August.Almost 500 cases of...
An experiment has finally revealed how it might feel to touch a quantum superfluid.Physicists dunked a special, finger-sized probe into an isotope of helium cooled to just a smidge over absolute zero,...
A new study reveals a previously undiscovered way that we can feel light touches: directly through our hair follicles.Before now, it was thought that only nerve endings in the skin and around...
Incredible though it may seem, a wriggly roundworm with no eyes, no spine, and no brain to speak of may still possess the most basic of animal emotions.In recent research, the nematode,...
Scientists have isolated a possible new antibiotic from a strain of bacterium found in sandy soil from North Carolina.The way it works could make pathogens less likely to develop drug resistance.The potent...
High levels of white blood cells in the saliva of otherwise healthy young adults could serve as an early warning sign for cardiovascular disease, according to a recent study by researchers from...
The far reaches of the Solar System are a dim and distant realm with particulars that elude us. So far from the light of the Sun, even a relatively large planet could...
