Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

We enjoy relaxing activities, and one way of measuring how relaxed (or not) we’re feeling is through taking cortisol samples.

The Yangtze finless porpoise is so revered that poets have been writing about it for more than a millennium, but that love ...

This question actually causes a lot of concern for people living with this autoimmune disease, but a new, small study offers ...

And ironically, for a question often known as “algebra’s oldest challenge”, it all started with a denial that would have made ...

According to the unknown author, dog’s milk "doth cause a woman to be delivered of her childe before tyme" (read: you risk premature birth by eating Fido’s fermented milk). Camel, mare, and ass milk ...

U S health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has recently made a pretty bold – and misleading – claim about the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, stating that it contains “a lot of aborted fetus ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from onboard Apollo 17 while headed to the Moon. This was the first time that an ...

It’s a pretty fundamental question in terms of the origin of complex matter in the universe,” Anirudh Patel said in a NASA ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, our closest relatives, our wounds are slow to recover – but it could be the outcome of us ...

"The key planet-formation processes in protoplanetary disks remain an active matter of research. One promising mechanism to ...

One man’s strange fixation with self-administering snake venom may lead to a remarkable advance in antivenom development, but ...