Coral reefs around the world are at risk of collapse due to rising temperatures and acidifying oceans, but the natural ...

Plankton that lived during the last glacial maximum have helped confirm the accuracy of our climate models – suggesting the predictions those models make about future El Niño events are accurate too ...

How did the supermassive black holes we’re now seeing in the early universe get so big so fast? Astrophysicist Sophie ...

Rapid erosion caused by a geological act of “piracy” tens of thousands of years ago may have raised Earth’s crust and ...

A beam of radioactive carbon ions has been used to destroy cancer cells in mice, demonstrating a therapy that may cause less ...

Northern sea robins are formidable marine hunters, and they owe their success to modified fin rays that let them find prey ...

Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a ...

DNA and protein analysis has identified a white substance smeared on mummies in China as a kind of kefir cheese, made from ...

Genetic testing on samples collected during the earliest days of the covid-19 outbreak suggests it is likely that the virus ...

Dopamine was long thought to play a part in the placebo effect for pain relief, but a new study is questioning its true role ...

Archaeologists have used AI to discover hundreds of large-scale drawings depicting figures like llamas, decapitated human ...