Henley Spiers took the top award in the annual contest, with shots of guillemots, penguins and a protective tawny frogmouth ...

As the world warms, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are escaping from frozen sediments. But with new monitoring tools, we can ...

An amoeba living in a Californian hot spring is thriving above 60°C, a threshold previously thought deadly to complex life ...

Children as young as 8 in the US are being prescribed off-label GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, sparking debate about the potential ...

Europe faces incredibly harsh winters and unrelenting droughts if the vital AMOC ocean current fails – but when disaster will ...

According to Newton’s third law, all actions are paired with reciprocal reactions. But breaking this principle allowed an ...

Stunning pictures of nebulae, stars, the moon and more took top prizes in this year's astrophotography competition, organised ...

Reducing fishing quotas, rescuing endangered species from the water and testing geoengineering could help soften ocean heat ...

Texts from imperial China suggest that some crimes were punishable with unusual amputations and a 700-year-old skeleton ...

Detailed data on the Roman Empire’s entire road network is offering fresh insight into how Romans built their infrastructure ...

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat ...

Scientists can now get more accurate safety data by testing drugs on organ-on-a-chip devices and organoids, meaning that ...