Family calls on Ministry of Defence to take responsibility for 'preventable' death

Cosmologist also predicts the end of humanity on Earth and urges continuation of space exploration

The smell of rosemary could boost your memory, researchers said.

About 150,000 people suffer a stroke every year. A third make a good recovery within a month. Most however, have long term difficulties with speech or movement and the worst affected die.

Fear may be felt in the heart as well as the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the likelihood of someone taking fright.

Light-middleweight dies nine days after suffering blood clot during fight

Many people have experienced the odd feeling that although we are our body's "owner-operator", as Hugh Aldersey-Williams puts it, the body is actually a strange appendage: not really us at all, more like one of our plug-ins – a car or computer. Cultures have veered wildly in their attitude to the body. Aldersey-Williams, an excellent, versatile science writer, pitches his book at just the right level of amused and curious enquiry.

A measles epidemic posing increased risk to children shows no sign of ending after a 25 per cent jump in new cases reported over the Easter break.

The brain function of convicted criminals can be used to predict the likelihood they will reoffend when released from prison, according to a new study.

A new era in the understanding of the human brain - the most complex structure in the known universe - began today when President Obama announced a $100m (£67m) research initiative to start mapping the complex neural circuitry of the mind.

When Oxford University's 18-metre vessel appears from Westminster Boat House today, etched on to its bow in black print will be the name Acer. It is only a small emblem but its resonance bears a fuller story: a warming tribute to a former cox, Acer Nethercott.

UK's top police officer worried by London's first road-deaths increase in 20 years

Patients given drugs with no active ingredients, or unproven or unnecessary treatments, finds study