Medical researchers have begun to elucidate the complex role of genes in human health.

As negotiators are stalled in a deal to unite Cyprus, forensic experts are helping to bury the ghosts of a bloody conflict.

IVF clinics are using a radical male infertility treatment too often despite the long-term risks to the babies conceived, one of the technique's pioneers says.

The findings of a study released in Britain this week promise to send alarm bells ringing in the heads of parents everywhere, writes Dita De Boni.

Researchers at Columbia University found happier people were less likely to develop serious heart problems.

Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, was a frail boy who suffered from a cleft palate and club foot.

The first, almost complete genome of an ancient human has revealed traits of a man living 4000 years ago.

Scientists have found that people who inherit two copies of a particular DNA variant show the biological signs of being about eight years "older" than people of the same age who carry neither genetic variant.

Millions of people who strive to keep fit by jogging, swimming or going to the gym are wasting their time, scientists say.

Scientists have succeeded in reading the mind of a man thought to have been lacking all awareness after a traumatic head injury.

Scientists have for the first time found powerful evidence that genius may be linked with madness.

Medical journal's editors retract paper 12 years after it was published, saying several of its elements are "incorrect".

Scientists are investigating a possible link between a rare degenerative nerve disease and a toxic gas blamed for four Nelson port workers 'deaths.

The day when patients can "swallow their doctor" has come a step closer with the development of a submicroscopic nanoparticle that acts as an intelligent pill.

Chimpanzees have been seen performing a "fire dance" in behaviour that could indicate an ability to understand and even control fire.

Charles Darwin spent nine days in New Zealand in 1835. He disliked the young country, but his experience helped shape his monumental theories about evolution.