In Short

Cigarette consumption is dropping, but so is people's desire to quit...

Do you also find it difficult to control what you eat? Scientists have made bacteria not need food at all...

For the first time, scientists have found evidence of a giant, Neptune-size planet orbiting a white dwarf star

Veronica Taylor tells us what it's like being the voice of Ash Ketchum from the Pokemon TV series.

What's the advantage of hanging onto your leaves year-round?

How did the tradition begin? And what's got the best carbon footprint, a real tree, or a plastic one?

Tuberculosis is treatable but time-consuming... could AI burst through the bottleneck?

So how does measles suppress the immune system?

Living in poor conditions is linked to depression in men, but anxiety in women...

The complete tale of one man's escape from one of the most terrifying forces of nature...

We explore what a carbon neutral future entails, and why we cannot afford to dither any longer...

Why might someone need a new kidney, and what's involved in the process?

In response to an earlier story about planting trees for climate change - it's more complex than it seems...

The more diverse the carbon compounds in a lake are, the more greenhouse gases it seems to emit...

Sensitive to stomach acid, it only releases vitamins inside you but protects them in the packet and cooking pot...

Based on the proteins the bacteria express when they infect, a new vaccine can block lethal Staph infections...

It's not just humans that have a complex social structure...

What did the second man-made object to leave the solar system detect as it entered intergalactic space...

When oil companies dispose of wastewater deep underground, earthquakes get more common and more dangerous...

A piece of glass, with a clever in-built structure, can mimic machine visual perception...

Overweight children have less grey matter in the front parts of the brain...

Analysis of old texts can shed light on wellbeing back in history...

Increasing the activity of mutated genes makes cancer cells stand out to the immune system...

A flexible robot - thinner than a piece of thread - that can be controlled using a magnetic field and snake its way...