Scientists have identified a gene which, when missing or impaired, can cause obesity, behavioural problems and, in mothers, postnatal depression

Discovery of new white blood cell function

Antarctic ice shelves hold twice as much meltwater as previously thought and this is poorly accounted for in regional climate models

Rainforest wildlife under threat as below-canopy temperatures rise

Scientists have grown ‘mini-guts’ in the lab to help understand Crohn’s disease, showing that ‘switches’ that modify DNA in gut cells play an important role in the disease

How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?

Researchers have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials, similar to charcoal, that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air

Researchers have discovered a 550-million-year-old sea sponge from the “lost years” and proposed that the earliest sea sponges had not yet developed mineral skeletons, offering new parameters to the search for the missing fossils

Imperceptible sensors can be printed directly on human skin

One in two children with ADHD experience emotional problems, study finds