A team of researchers has pioneered the use of virtual environments to study crime

A huge rise in the number of people taking antidepressant drugs is potentially posing a threat to the environment

People can die simply because they’ve given up, life has beaten them and they feel defeat is inescapable, according to new research.

Einstein proved right in another galaxy - A team of astronomers used a nearby galaxy as a gravitational lens to make a precise test of gravity on astronomical length scales, to show that gravity in this galaxy behaves as predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Genes which determine animal complexity – or what makes humans so much more complex than a fruit fly or a sea urchin – have been identified for the first time.

New research suggests that a giant pterosaur may have been the dominant predator in Cretaceous-age Transylvania