Locals have been left baffled by a prankster who has left a plate of peeled bananas on their street every month for more than ...

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

Socializing with friends and family helps protect people from a heart attack and illnesses such as flu, according to new research. Loneliness is linked to a higher risk of heart disease and stroke and ...

A coastguard team was called out to rescue a person in the sea - only to find it was a training dummy. HM Coastguard Fleetwood rushed to the scene at Cleveleys, Lancashire on New Year's Eve.

A "remarkable" tree fossil has been discovered - which reveals the "English Riviera" Devon coast was once a volcanic island covered in palm trees. The 377 million-year-old fossil was discovered by Dr.

Teenagers get hooked on drugs because their brains are wired differently, suggests a new study. Many differences appeared to exist in the brain structure of adolescents before any substance use - ...

Industrial pollution has been having a negative impact on human health since the height of the Roman Empire, reveals new research. Lead pollution likely caused widespread IQ declines throughout Europe ...

X-rays will be safer thanks to new detector technology, say scientists. The scans are a common part of medical testing and industrial monitoring, used for everything from dental checks to monitoring ...

Male African elephants develop "distinct" personality traits as they grow older, reveals new research. They show "consistent" individual differences in aggression, dominance and friendly behavior, say ...

New treatments to slow the aging of the brain may be possible following a major breakthrough. American scientists have identified specific cell types in the brain of mice that undergo major changes as ...