During a four-day series in August, the Herald investigated Scotland's rapidly growing cosmetic sector. Here we look back on some of the highlights.

The theory is solid, but creating such a bespoke vaccine quickly enough to be of use is a different matter. “Not many years ...

It was just another day in science class when Natashia Anderson let out a gasp after reading an email informing her that she ...

"Mirror bacteria" being developed in labs could be a looming risk to the health of humanity ... according to a paper in the journal Science. "Our view is that mirror bacteria and other mirror ...

In the US alone, around 300,000 children each year have their tonsils surgically removed to improve breathing while sleeping ...

We can help! Science News Explores and the Science News in High Schools Digital Library offer a variety of free, age-appropriate STEM resources for kids from fifth through 12th grades. Stay up to ...

A new study has highlighted how such foods might drive colorectal cancer risk. A photo-illustration ... Timothy Yeatman, professor of surgery in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and ...

"Too many communities" are exposed to flooding, the government said, as updated mapping from the Environment Agency identified thousands more properties at risk. Thousands more homes in England ...

However, people who retain urine even after peeing (called post-void residual urine) are at a greater risk of urinary tract infections, which can cause serious complications. Few people experience ...

from the emergence of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy cows posing a pandemic risk to threats to reproductive health care. But we’ve learned quite a lot of fascinating things about the human body ...

“Current models predict that with so few heavier elements, the disks around stars have a short lifetime, so short in fact that planets cannot grow big,” said the Webb study’s co-investigator Elena ...