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

Feedback is delighted to receive a response, however excruciating, from a junior doctor to the call for papers in which The ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

Quartz crystals produce electricity when they are deformed by mechanical stress, which may explain how enormous chunks of ...

A band that measures the acidity of sweat could flag if athletes or manual workers are overexerting themselves ...

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