Two researchers may have opened floodgates on the debate over why humans can run marathons, swim the English Channel or dive a hundred meters and back on a single breath, and their ape cousins can’t. Humans evolved endurance for feats...

A recent study found that rapid-acting antidepressants like ketamine and psychedelics may relieve depression by regulating specific immune system pathways in the body and brain. The research suggests that rebalancing a precise set of immune signaling molecules can predict how...

Exclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in reality

Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’