A toddler who suffered multiple cardiac arrests is now in end-stage heart failure and is asking Father Christmas for a life-saving heart transplant this Christmas. Little Willow Stansfield, 18 months, ...

A new early warning tool developed by British scientists will help control devastating locust swarms. Desert locusts typically lead solitary lives until something - such as an intense rainstorm - ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 7,000-year-old figurine that looks like an alien. Researchers discovered the unearthly form while digging at a site in Kuwait called Bahra 1. The joint Kuwaiti-Polish ...

Scientists investigating Alzheimer's disease have made a key breakthrough. They have identified a vital cellular mechanism ...

Parkinson's disease patients can dance the blues away, reveals new research. Dancing lowers the depression associated with ...

The owner of the Santa was at a carol service with his eight-year-old daughter Scarlett in Lowestoft, Suffolk, when the ...

Exasperated health bosses have asked patients and staff not to encourage a friendly cat that has made the NHS hospital her second home. Bobbie, a four-year-old feline, has been visiting the James ...

Music really does reduce stress in dementia patients, according to a new study. Researchers have shown for the first time how and why music can reduce distress and agitation for people with advanced ...

Alpacas dressed as reindeer have been bringing Christmas joy to care home residents in animal therapy sessions. Alpacas Luke and King Kong received a warm welcome earlier this month after paying a ...

A new cancer "fingerprint" can improve early detection of potentially deadly tumors, say scientists. Changes are detectable with "near-perfect" accuracy by portable scanners in just a few hours, ...

Sixty-five percent of holiday hosts are cleaning their home until the second before their guests arrive, according to a new study. The poll of 2,000 Americans, who plan to host guests for the holidays ...

Potentially deadly solar "superflares" are far more common than previously thought, according to a new study. Unusually strong solar storms earlier this year triggered "Northern Lights" auroras at ...