Rats are a scourge on island wildlife all over the world. But an island off the coast of Ireland is showing how to ...

A jaguar that has been dubbed Gaspar traversed 2100 kilometres of the Amazon, crossing farms and roads. But why he set off on ...

Climate change is affecting the yields and flavour of the traditional Japanese tea matcha, but studying its seedlings' ...

Flame-generated thunderstorms known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds can make wildfires even more intense, and they are expected to ...

Over 1.4 million years ago, a group of eight ancient hominins walked across a shallow mudflat, but their footprints don’t ...

A drug advisory committee in the US has recommended approval for several experimental peptides. But there have been no ...

After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falling back to Earth at ballistic speeds, creating a global blast of heat strong eno ...

Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole straying far from the centre of its galaxy using light from a star being ...

Climate campaigners are angry at reports that the UK government is set to allow oil and gas drilling projects to go ahead, ...

The first of a new generation of drugs that works in a completely different way to existing ones has been approved. Columnist Michael Le Page says this approach could transform treatments for all kind ...

An eye implant and a pair of high-tech glasses that enable people with a severe form of vision loss to read have been ...

An increasing number of studies have linked ultra-processed foods with depression, anxiety and even dementia. Columnist Helen ...