Colin Barras is a science writer focusing on life sciences. He has a BSc in geology from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, a PhD on the Jurassic ...

Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a ...

The author of space opera Slow Gods digs into the details of exploring what happens when a planet is about to be destroyed by ...

Antimatter has finally hit the road. Around 100 antiprotons took a 20-minute trip on the back of a lorry around the CERN particle physics laboratory’s campus near Geneva, Switzerland. This ...

An ancient continent that was once sandwiched between India and Madagascar now lies scattered on the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The first clues to the continent’s existence came when some parts of ...

You may find you work better in a coffee shop than in your bedroom, but perhaps not for the reasons you’ve been led to believe. Instead of the noise and bustle stimulating your imagination, your ...

Experiments will take advantage of the solar eclipse in August to learn more about the sun and Earth at a relatively low cost ...

An open-source flight-control system found in consumer drones has been installed in Ukraine’s latest cruise missile, showing ...

Coffee improves short-term memory and speeds up reaction times by acting on the brain’s prefrontal cortex, according to a new study. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to ...

The mummified daughters of pharaohs who lived thousands of years ago have bone changes that suggest they fought with bows and ...

A black colobus monkey from a remote part of the Congo Basin rainforest, known locally as likweli, is thought to be severely ...

A new kind of antibody drug that more efficiently enters the brain could slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease with a ...