For the first time researchers have found that humans can detect whether another person is feeling joyful by their scent.

There are many different ways a sexologist may work. Here's the type of couple a clinical sexologist may encounter.

A New Zealand expert has dismissed plans for the world's first body transplant as "science fiction".

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.

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.

Scientists have mapped the features of the world's most beautiful men and women - and Natalie Portman and David Gandy are the closest real-life examples.

A new method that screens embryos for more than 200 disorders is already making dreams come true, reports Sarah Knapton from London.

Who volunteers to have sex in a laboratory? I was struck by this question when reading about an experimental study of ideal sexual positions for men with back pain.

On the quest to find true love, it is a well-used adage that one must kiss a few frogs before meeting a prince. And it would appear this theory is accurate.

A small NZ beauty company has recorded a breakthrough in scientific tests.

Scientists believe the gene Plexin D1 tells fat to gather around the middle, rather than the bottom and thighs.

Dug out of a car park five centuries after his mutilated body was unceremoniously interred, England's Richard III will finally be given a burial fit for a king.

We may now be a step closer to discovering what love is, thanks to a scientific study that has obtained the first empirical evidence of love-related alterations in the brain.

What we eat and do today can have long-term consequences for the health of our descendants for generations to come, research shows.

The genes linked with autism are thought to promote higher intelligence, scientists believe.

A bizarre experiment which saw scientists keep the brains of fruit flies alive in a dish for six days may hold the key to explaining - and eventually treating - jet lag.

Why all hipsters look the same - scientists reveal the maths behind beards, bicycles and man buns.

Just about everybody has one raging narcissist to deal with, sooner or later - on the job, in social situations or (God forbid) in the home. How did he get this way, we wonder?

Benevolent sexism makes men more smiley when they interact with women, and that's bad news.

The lives of tens of thousands of new mothers around the world could be saved by a simple, hand-held, British-made device.

The first case of a mother acting as a surrogate to help her son become a parent raises deep questions about the changing nature of families, says Cristina Odone.