Sex on a holiday allows you to get away from pressures, distractions, worries and responsibilities - basically, any of those libido-killers that affect your love life most days of the year. Read more »

Archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,300-year-old female mummy in a residential area of the Peruvian capital. Read more »

The head of the World Health Organization says anti-smoking campaigns are the world's best weapon in the fight against cancer. Read more »

The cow is considered sacred in India. Now scientists know it is also a dependable, navigational compass. Read more »

Georgia Tech researchers believe a magnetic, tongue-powered system could transform a disabled person's mouth into a virtual computer, teeth into a keyboard - and tongue into the key that manipulates i Read more »

Tests in capuchin monkeys showed the animals consistently chose to share food with another monkey if given the option, suggesting they are capable of empathy. Read more »

Regularly inhaling the smoke could put people at risk of cancers of the respiratory tract, researchers reported. Read more »

Pampered house cats may pose a bigger risk to fish stocks than humans with gourmet felines chewing through more than two million tonnes of seafood each year. Read more »

A new study has found that elderly patients who are prescribed a conventional, or first-generation, antipsychotic medication are at an increased risk of death from cardiovascular or respiratory diseas Read more »

Scientists at Children’s Hospital have identified the gene responsible for inherited version of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma. Read more »