NASA has revealed details of its plans to build a permanent base on the moon. Initially, this will see autonomous rovers and ...

Among people of high socioeconomic status, love for nature corresponds with a bigger environmental footprint – and there's an ...

Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping in the quantum realm ...

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 ...

Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a highly toxic plant ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...