Scientists from the University of Nottingham have discovered that drinking a cup of coffee can stimulate ‘brown fat’, the body’s own fat-fighting defenses, which could be the key to tackling obesity and diabetes.

Scientists are usually pictured on screen as sober and humorless types, pre-occupied with numbers and empty facts

With the number of children diagnosed with autism on the rise, the need to find what causes the disorder becomes more urgent every day.

In a new survey of the sub-seafloor off the U.S. Northeast coast, scientists have made a surprising discovery: a gigantic aquifer of relatively fresh water trapped in porous sediments lying below the salty ocean.

Often, the findings of fundamental scientific research are many steps away from a product that can be immediately brought to the public. 

A new nanomaterial made from phosphorus, known as phosphorene, is shaping up as a key ingredient for more sustainable and efficient next-generation perovskite solar cells (PSCs).

The cumulative stresses caused by historic earthquakes could provide some explanation as to why and where they occur, according to new research.

For ferry-goers gliding through the calm and sometimes narrow channels of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands, the views can be idyllic: craggy coastlines and placid inlets set against lush forested mountains.

It’s easy to think of cities as being the enemy of nature. 

Changes in agriculture, trade, food production and consumption after the collapse of the Soviet Union led to a large reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a new study has found.