Our organs don't seem to age at the same rate, which could mean healthy habits are particularly important at certain times of ...

Robotic equipment can implant electrodes into cockroaches and connect them to an electronic backpack, making it feasible to ...

Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived ...

Comparing historical heat extremes with climate simulations has revealed that in parts of the world the models are ...

About 40 years ago, researchers noticed a population of orcas had begun swimming around with dead fish on their heads, and ...

Tiny robots designed to carry out environmental or industrial tasks could be powered by tricks involving surface tension ...

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic ...

There are two monumental problems with the world’s food system. Firstly, hundreds of millions of people can’t afford to buy enough nutritious food to stay healthy. Secondly, it is incredibly ...

Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number. Now we ...

Researchers have used lasers to encode information in diamonds, demonstrating record-breaking data density in an ultra-stable ...

Want to protect your young plants from the ravages of slugs and snails? A classic gardening tip is to use crushed eggshells ...

An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...