Placebo effect can work as well as real medicine – but your body may need permission to use it

The first time the placebo effect really got under my skin was when I read that roughly one-third of people with irritable ...

These blazing blue explosions may be born when a compact dead star slams into a Wolf-Rayet star

Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are among the universe's brightest and fastest explosions but their origin is not completely understood. A new study takes a closer look at the galaxies ...

Single mathematical model helps solve a decades-old puzzle involving ultrafast lasers

A team of international researchers, including an Aston University researcher, has cracked the code on how "breather" laser ...