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...
Fine dust suspended in the atmosphere may have played a significant role in the extinction of dinosaurs after all.It's largely accepted that around 66 million years ago, a space rock larger than...
After a bump, we can expect a bruise. But what if we find ourselves bruising without any noticeable cause? What might be behind it? Should we worry?Around 18 percent of adults report...
For those with stubbornly resistant forms of severe depression, ketamine was looking more and more like a solution. Years of research has hinted at the dissociative anesthetic's treatment potential where other medications...
Sliding care-free through the complete emptiness of space, light covers a constant 299,792,458 meters every second. No more, no less.This all changes when that wave of electromagnetism is forced to negotiate the...
Sometimes, years of painstaking excavation work are required to uncover the artifacts of the past – and sometimes, as with a recent earthquake in Mexico City, much of the hard digging work...
