A UN report says it’s possible to get global temperatures back down to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the ...

Catherine Heymans is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Observational Cosmology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the GCCL Institute at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She ...

Injuries from the war in Ukraine have forced the country to develop highly advanced prostheses and fit them in record numbers. What can the rest of the world learn from its efforts?

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it – that ...

Mountainous regions across the planet are warming especially fast, melting the ice that glues rocky slopes and glaciers ...

From China Miéville to Brandon Sanderson via a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, there are some really huge names with new sci-fi ...

No matter where you’re from, there are things you can do to cope better with extreme temperatures. But it takes work to stop ...

Animal studies have shown that lithium orotate could help stave off dementia, and a human trial is about to start to see if ...

Something took a bite out of one of the biggest predators in Cambrian seas, an extraordinary fossil shows – and it could well ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which launches on 30 August, will observe space with the same detail as the Hubble ...

A newfound star called S301 is both the fastest ever seen and the closest to a supermassive black hole –and it could make bafflingly difficult tests of gravity possible at last ...

The total solar eclipse on 2 August 2027 is due to be the longest one until the year 2114, and researchers, eclipse chasers ...