A new study finds just one country is truly food self-sufficient, exposing global vulnerabilities in the face of crisis.

“You lose most of the heat from your head,” the saying goes. But is this actually accurate? This myth likely stems from a US Army Field Manual that stated 40–45 per cent of heat loss occurs through ...

The Mediterranean diet may help you live longer, especially if you also adopt the lifestyle of people living near the Med during the 1950s. Characterised by a high intake of plant-based foods and ...

The Moon has a significant influence on Earth, but whether it's needed for life to evolve is up for debate. It does make life sustainable.

Something very strange is happening to Earth’s core, and scientists might finally know why A bold new study has offered up fresh clues about the weird happenings beneath our feet. Image credit: Getty ...

Recent research has highlighted that your personality has a big part to play in both dementia diagnosis risk and resilience to the disease.

Shipwrecking ‘rogue waves’ are raging through our oceans. And they have scientists puzzled Extreme waves have recently sank cruise ships and fishing vessels .

The ‘ashen light’, or AL, is a faint, mysterious glow, or colouration, seen in the night-side hemisphere of the planet Venus. It’s often compared to the reflected ‘Earthshine’ that sometimes ...

They secrete milk from specialised mammary glands, just like humans and other mammals. But platypuses don’t have teats, so the milk just oozes from the surface of their skin. This makes it look like ...

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Dean is a neuroscientist, author, blogger, occasional comedian and all-round ‘science guy’. He is the author of the the popular Guardian Science blog Brain Flapping (now Brain Yapping on the Cosmic ...