Why do people commit crime?
What do Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories have to do with the reasons people commit crime? Perhaps more than we realise.
What do Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories have to do with the reasons people commit crime? Perhaps more than we realise.
Scientists discover genetic background to disease - and treatments are already available.
When and how, in the minefield of marital communication, can you have these conversations without them ending in a terrific, door-slamming row?
Feminists have debated it for decades, but scientists have finally got to the bottom of why men still exist.
A new study suggests that the love hormone, oxytocin, has similar effects to being drunk, and not just the more pleasant aspects of inebriation.
Bioprinted human skin has been on the scene for some time but cosmetics company L'Oreal is hoping to get into the game.
Alcohol may also make us more empathic and cause us to see other people as more attractive. Why do these reactions occur?
What are electrolytes, how do they work, and why do we need them? A sport scientist explains.
Are you one of the millions of people around the globe left shaking with terror at the sight of a needle? For many the thought of an injection alone inspires fear.
The number of single women seeking fertility treatment has almost doubled in two years as career-minded professionals without partners opt to parent alone.
A breakthrough by New Zealand scientists could lead to a vaccine to treat a ghastly disease which mostly affects the poorest in the world.
A scientist specialising in anti-ageing research has made the bold claim that he will live to be 150, and he takes 100 drugs a day in pursuit of that goal.
A fungus found on caterpillars could be used to relieve pain in osteoarthritis sufferers, according to British researchers.
Scientists have found that the chance of being bitten by a mosquito is written in the genes and some people are just more likely to be attacked no matter what.
"I was trying really hard not to cry. I didn't want him to see me cry. I was trying hard to keep it together and just talk to him."
Using slow-motion video, researchers were able to see what occurred inside the joint.
When men donate to charity it's not so much the giving that counts but the desire to compete with other men for the attentions of attractive women, according to a study.
For the first time researchers have found that humans can detect whether another person is feeling joyful by their scent.
Thunderbirds creator's son tells why he took a DIY test to learn if he would inherit Alzheimer's.
Murray Jackson says he would rather die than suffer again the 19 violent jolts he received from a small defibrillator that had been implanted within his chest.
What makes one person seek out the spiciest chillis, while another enjoys only bland foods?
People could perceive your post-surgery personality differently, too, new research suggests.
A new type of HIV treatment involving the transfusion of a synthetic antibody has shown startling trial results.
Men are up to five times more likely to commit a sex crime than the average male if their father or brothers have been convicted of a serious sexual offence.
Violet Pietrok is two minutes older than her twin sister. She was born with a Tessier Cleft, a rare condition that left a fissure in her skull, so the facial bones didn't fully come together.
Sexual behaviour is notoriously difficult to measure, and the findings often dubious. Rowan Pelling meets the Cambridge academic who is analysing our most intimate secrets.
Why do we laugh? The obvious answer is that something is funny. But if we look closer at when and how laughter occurs in ordinary social situations, we see that it's not so simple.
A hospital known for pioneering face transplant surgery has carried out its most complex operation yet, reconstructing a man's lower face and neck.
A thousand-year-old medieval remedy for eye infections which was discovered in a manuscript in the British Library has been found to kill the superbug MRSA.