Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...

Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks left – but then she was ...

The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatomy and evolutionary ...

The ocean floor is a vast source of potentially revolutionary scientific discovery – yet it remains largely inaccessible. For ...

Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a ...

Raising children appears to keep the brain young, potentially acting as a buffer against cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s ...

The disruption of your gut microbiome is a major consequence, and possible cause, of ageing. Columnist Graham Lawton looks ...

A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike 3 billion years ago, but ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...