Black death was around in the Bronze Age
A pair of 3,800-year-old skeletons buried together in Russia test positive for a strain of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis that is ancestral to the strain that caused the Black Death
People could soon be given a jab of friendly bacteria to protect against post-traumatic stress disorder
The probiotic-based immunisation could also be used to treat anxiety and depression.
Police hunting thugs who attacked two elderly men in their homes after posing as cops
Shocking pictures show the bloodied and bruised faces of the victims
Scientists have begun DNA search of murky depths of Loch Ness
The team led by Professor Neil Gemmell of the University of Otago, New Zealand, arrived on Saturday and are trying to identify what lives in the mysterious Loch Ness.
Dolphins ‘know each other by name’
Researchers found that male dolphins retain individual vocal labels rather than sharing a common call with their cooperative partners
Former Royal Marine begins his attempt to be the first blind person to row the Pacific
Steve Sparkes, 57, pushed off from Monterey, California, to begin the challenge of a lifetime
Vegan chef Gaz Oakley says social media has made Britain healthier
The Cardiff-born Instagram star boasts more than 164,000 followers on his social network’s AvantGardeVegan feed, as well as over 250,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel.
The brain actually ‘beats’… just like the heart, say scientists.
And its tiny movements - less than the width of a human hair - have been caught on film for the first time.
Memory fades as people get older because their brain runs out of gas… just like an ‘old banger’
Mitichondria, tiny 'power stations' that fuel all cells make less power in the brain with age