On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate that the tiny world, which is about 45 times further from the sun than ...

A new supercapacitor design that uses only water, clay and graphene could source material on Mars and be more sustainable and ...

Fibres in wet wipes and clothes often make their way into soil - and natural versions could be more damaging than synthetic ...

There are few things more irritating in everyday life than getting something stuck between your teeth. Thankfully, we can ...

The muscle cells lining an artery resemble a stained glass window in this image, the winner of the British Heart Foundation’s ...

The world’s oldest known writing system may have had its origins in the imagery on decorated cylinders used to denote ...

A rapid form of 3D printing that uses sound and light could one day produce copies of human organs made from a person’s own ...

The focus is on finance at the UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, this month, but countries are a long way from any kind of consensus ...

Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century cemetery is made up of bones from many people spanning thousands of years – but we don’t know who asse ...

A common sunscreen ingredient, zinc nanoparticles, may help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common problem under climate change. Zinc is known to play an important role in plant ...