Robert Matthews

TOFIs – Thin Outside, Fat Inside – are people whose bodies show little outward sign that they are packed with a particularly nasty form of fat - visceral fat, which can hide between organs, fooling people into thinking they are healthier than they are.

Three academics have been met with vitriol by most of the scientific community over an article in which they lambast the lack of scientific progress and question the legitimacy of inflation theory.

A widely publicised paper on a connection between sugar-free soft drinks and dementia and strokes has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Want to know how to tie your shoelaces correctly, or throw a dart to maximise your score, or even keep your bathroom mirror from steaming up? Science has the answer.

Researchers in the UK have unveiled a major advance that centres on a bizarre carbon-based material that can filter sea-water and strip it back to pure H2O, while also filtering out impurities.

Recent research has shown that trust in forensic methods such as fingerprinting can be misplaced and conference aims to bring together experts in the field to improve best practice.

A claim that using Google search result data could predit stock market changes has proved to be far from accurate, putting the reliability of such Big Data under the spotlight.

The debate surrounding whether climate change is slowing down or not is certainly speeding up, and it's becoming far more complex than anyone could have predicted.

This question tops a list of 42 as-yet unanswered questions on Life, the Universe and Everything, to be presented this week in Sharjah by a Swedish physicist.

Google, IBM and Microsoft are competing to build a quantum computer, a device that will utilise quantum theory to take computing power to a whole new level.

About 700,000 people die each year worldwide from bacterial infections but that toll could rise to 10 million by 2050 if people do not wake up to the reality that overprescription of antibiotic drugs and failure to complete a course of medication are key drivers of antibiotic resistance.

Forecasts of political and economic turmoil in 2017 have shone the spotlight on so-called experts and how studies have shown that they're not very good at predictions. Instead, the law of probability is a safer bet.

Millions of festive deliveries made in a single night? According to Albert Einstein, Santa may use more than reindeers to get around, writes Robert Matthews

Despite decades of research and hundreds of potential 'breakthrough' drugs being tested, science is no further forward in understanding the most common form of dementia, which will have a growing impact in the UAE in coming years.

Dutch theorist Professor Erik Verlinde is causing gravitational waves among physicists with his view that gravity is not a fundamental force of nature and that dark matter can't be found because it doesn't exist.