Silver goes dull, copper turns green and iron rusts, but gold always stays shiny. Why this is the case has remained a mystery ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

An ongoing census of sea life in the South Atlantic has identified over 1000 new creatures, including a new species of sea ...

Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a highly toxic plant chemical, to alleviate pain during surgical procedures ...

Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide that reached Asian ...

Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts experience accelerated ageing could help us fight similar effects on Earth ...

A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Work, illness, divorce: life is riddled with stressors out of your control. But research is revealing new ways to cope with ...

A record-breaking new version of Starship, due to launch within days, could form the basis of NASA's ambitious Artemis ...

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...