Science

The 4,000-year-old drug, most commonly used to treat pain, prevents certain tumours from forming and spreading across the body – findings that are already changing health policies.

After nearly 100 years of development, treatments that bolster the body's immune system to fight cancer are coming of age – and saving patients' lives.

Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a "terrifying" bicycle ride home from the laboratory.

BBC Science Editor Rebecca Morelle reflects on how it felt to watch history being made.

Wit, unker and git are among a dazzling range of now-extinct pronouns that reveal what people once thought about "two-ness".

A mysterious 5,000-year-old decision led directly to how we still count time today.

For a decade, we've been told our screens are wrecking our sleep. The real culprit is far bigger than the glow from your phone.