Your gut microbiome could be stopping you from losing weight

Researchers suggest that changing your diet could encourage beneficial microbes that help weight loss.

Drinking milk enabled Bronze Age nomads to migrate thousands of miles across mainland Europe

The ancient herders drank the milk of cows, sheep, goats, and even horses.

A good story, well told, can cause listeners’ heart rates to sync up

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin, and we'll synchronise our heart rates.

Snakes on a plain: dinosaur-killing asteroid impact led to a global explosion in serpent species

The devastating event was a form of ‘creative destruction’ that allowed snakes to diversify into new niches that were previously filled by competitors.