Martha Henriques

The world-renowned cosmologist's PhD thesis has been made public and has already received hundreds of download requests.

Oct 23, 2017

The anaesthetic drug ketamine appears to improve migraine symptoms in 75% of patients. It has also shown promise in treating depression.

Oct 21, 2017

Pet dogs use facial expressions to communicate with their owners, a study has found. They only use expressions like 'puppy eyes' when they know a human will witness it.

Oct 19, 2017

When rivals hang out with a male coppery titi monkey's mate, it triggers experiences of social exclusion, stress and aggression in the monkeys.

Oct 19, 2017

Pressures at school, body image issues and being in a state of 'extreme connectedness' are thought to be behind the trend.

Oct 18, 2017

Dolphin and whale societies are about as sophisticated as our own. They talk, have names, form allegiances, hunt together and work with other species. All they lack is thumbs.

Oct 16, 2017

Psilocybin makes a brain circuit involved in depression break down and reform. The process relieves symptoms in up to half of people for who standard treatments haven't worked.

Oct 13, 2017

But wait – is it really a question of bromance vs romance? Bromances are good for men's mental health, but researchers say this comes at men's girlfriends' expense.

Oct 12, 2017

The virus that was used to make the cowpox vaccine didn't come from cows after all. It came from horses, which can suffer a similar condition called horsepox.

Oct 11, 2017

Scientists have found a way to predict when Old Faithful will blow its top, sending steam up to 180 feet into the air.

Oct 06, 2017

The placebo effect is stronger if people think the treatment they're getting is expensive. Now scientists have shown the nocebo effect is also more potent for expensive drugs.

Oct 05, 2017

Neonicotinoids contaminate the majority of honey in the world. Almost half of all honey samples contained more than one neonicotinoid.

Oct 05, 2017

Academics suspect that other scholars may be behind the fakes, as they are extremely convincing. Washington DC's Museum of the Bible spent millions on fake fragments before it even opened.

Oct 05, 2017

The salamander has an incredible level of detail preserved, including its spinal cord, gut, muscle and glands. Its last meal of a frog is also still visible in its stomach.

Oct 04, 2017

In recent decades there has been less and less rain in central India – but the rain that does fall is coming down in increasingly extreme storms.

Oct 03, 2017

The meal could have been the ichthyosaur's first and last. Let's hope it was good.

Oct 03, 2017

Beaches are leaching highly radioactive caesium.

Oct 02, 2017

Hardened arteries - or atherosclerosis - can cause heart attack and stroke.

Oct 02, 2017

The battle was a turning point in late medieval Europe.

Oct 02, 2017

Excavation of a burial site in Jerusalem also yielded exotic myrtle and date pollen.

Sep 28, 2017

The therapy will be trialled on other patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state.

Sep 25, 2017

Three-quarters of cancer patients would like to hear more about cannabis from their doctors.

Sep 25, 2017

The psychedelic drugs have a similar structure to medications used to treat cluster headache.

Sep 22, 2017

Depression closely tied up with inflammation in the body and brain.

Sep 22, 2017

Touching rats' genitals made them grow into sexually mature adults sooner.

Sep 21, 2017

Tiny but deadly poison frogs have a clever way to stop themselves falling prey to their own venom.

Sep 21, 2017

Entire city was planned on a carefully thought-through grid system.

Sep 21, 2017

The figurines were found in the temple of Ptah.

Sep 21, 2017

Foreign and local rulers played the game.

Sep 21, 2017