Robert Matthews

A team of medics in the US and Britain has decided to get to the bottom of bizarre experiences reported by patients brought back from the dead in hospital resuscitation units.

The presence of water has been the basis for human settlement for aeons, but one ancient method of finding it is still in dispute. Can "an enchanted twig" do the job or do dowsers simply make very educated guesses?

The pharmaceutical industry is discovering that exactly when medication is taken could be crucial to how well it does its job.

Science columnist Robert Matthews writes about a quirky new book that comes to some down-to-earth conclusions about the human condition, touching on everything from tipping to helping people in distress.

The recent Bigfoot fraud was remarkable for the naivety of its perpetrators. However, bringing the scientifically suspect to the public has led occasionally to new discoveries, but scientists are scared of being fooled.

An American woman's cloning of her deceased dog may be an indicator of the commercial viability of cloning.

The idea of declaring a "war on climate change" is gaining ground in environmental circles - and not just as a means of ratcheting up the rhetoric.

When a Dutch tourist emerged from a forest cave in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park last month, she unwittingly carried home a deadly souvenir in the form of one of the most terrifying viruses known to science.

There is a word that should be in the lexicon of anyone trying to protect the environment. Like schadenfreude, it's one of those German words that has no direct equivalent even in the vast vocabulary of the English language

Water has over 60 properties that are natural anomalies. The more researchers study it, the stranger it seems.