Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

We’ve now figured out how to culture chocolate in the lab. The breakthrough could help with spiralling cocoa costs, and may ...

An antibiotic that is commonly used for urinary tract infections effectively treated gonorrhoea, and may even work against ...

Scientists have used gene editing to produce artificial electrical synapses in mice, where they can be targeted to make the ...

One explanation could be that people with better education, healthcare or incomes are more likely to use digital technologies, as these factors are also linked with lower rates of dementia. But some ...

Puppies’ performance in cognitive tests at 3 to 7 months old can give a strong indication of their personalities and trainability as adults ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel ...

The results indicate that having a wider pelvis reduces the risk of complications during birth, but results in slower walking ...

Beekeepers often experience some seasonal losses, but this past winter, more than half of all US honeybee colonies died off, ...

Amazon is aiming to launch its first operational satellites today to provide speedy internet connections in remote regions, ...

Proposed cuts would wipe out NOAA’s Ocean and Atmospheric Research office among a raft of other reductions to one of the main ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...