Germs may linger on plastic bank notes for longer… if they can manage to stick to it in the first place.

If you thought your teenage years were awkward, try going through puberty in a cocoon.

‘Bird brain’ may not be such an insult after all. Avian dinosaurs’ intelligence and small size may have given them the edge in the prehistoric post-apocalyptic landscape.

Cover your mouth! Coughing launches thousands of saliva droplets at up to 160km per hour.

While being in a relationship can benefit your health, it can also bring problems of its own.

Despite their radically different appearances, all domestic dogs are still genetically the same species.

Several scientific pioneers were involved in the development of this magnetic medical breakthrough.

Water droplets in the air can reduce visibility enough as it is, but add pollution to the mix and things get much worse.

Human childbirth is hard enough – imagine giving birth to a baby half your weight!

It may help raise funds for conservation efforts, but this controversial practice also removes the strongest, healthiest members from the gene pool.

Pain is a very personal experience, making it difficult to study, but ordinary ibuprofen and paracetamol seem to do the trick in most cases.

While it's possible to lay an egg in orbit, successfully incubating one may prove more problematic.

Living things and volcanic activity are an essential part of the Earth's ‘nitrogen cycle.’

It takes a ‘Very Large Telescope’ indeed to spot distant planets from another solar system.