It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

A classic study found that people can fail to notice a gorilla when they are focusing on something else, but new experiments ...

Satellite images reveal that when conditions are right, the pollution from industrial hotspots can cause snow to fall ...

Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acute pain, which could make them a promising ...

Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman and ...

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

Photographer Kadir van Lohuizen captures the food industry's attempts to meet the challenges of climate change and conflicts ...

The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries ...

Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control ...

Air pollution has been linked to eczema before, and now a study of more than 280,000 people has strengthened the association ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. It aims to conduct the launch as early as 18 November. Here’s everything we know so far ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...