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This man spent months alone underground – and it warped his mind

8 August 2018

Michel Siffre’s extraordinary self-experiments in a cave with no light would never be allowed now – but revealed strange truths about how we perceive time

Why allergies aren’t nuts at all

8 August 2018

Faced with airline peanut bans, it’s easy to dismiss allergies as imaginary modern maladies. They’re not – and we need to understand why they’re on the up

Allergy explosion: The truth behind the most common myths

8 August 2018

You can grow into and out of allergies your whole life; they come in groups; women are more allergy prone... Wild ideas about allergies abound, but which should you believe?

Allergy explosion: What causes allergies and how to avoid them

8 August 2018

We've all heard that being too clean can cause allergies, or exposure can help you beat them. Most advice doesn't stand up, but there are things that do seem to work

Allergy explosion: They are on the rise, and here’s why

8 August 2018

Banning nuts on planes and in schools may seem like hysteria, but there's good reason: allergies are becoming more common. And you may not realise how you're affected

Deaths caused by the opioid fentanyl are rising in the UK

6 August 2018

Drug data reveals that deaths from fentanyl, carfentanyl and cocaine are on the rise in England and Wales, but heroin and morphine deaths have declined slightly

Modified mosquitoes wipe out whole city’s dengue for the first time

2 August 2018

Anti-dengue mosquitoes have eliminated the virus from Townsville, Australia - the first successful large-scale use of modified mosquitoes to wipe out disease

Google Glass app uses emojis to help children with autism read faces

2 August 2018

Many children with autism find it hard to decipher other people’s facial expressions. An interactive system that uses Google Glass may help

Bio-engineered lungs are the first successful organs made in the lab

1 August 2018

Pigs have been able to breathe using lungs made in the lab. This is the most successful complex organ to be bioengineered yet – but there’s one big step left

Newly-discovered type of lung cell has central role in cystic fibrosis

1 August 2018

A new type of lung cell is rare in our bodies, but is the main place where the gene involved in the common hereditary condition cystic fibrosis is active