Flame-generated thunderstorms known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds can make wildfires even more intense, and they are expected to ...

After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falling back to Earth at ballistic speeds, creating a global blast of heat strong eno ...

Over 1.4 million years ago, a group of eight ancient hominins walked across a shallow mudflat, but their footprints don’t ...

A drug advisory committee in the US has recommended approval for several experimental peptides. But there have been no ...

An eye implant and a pair of high-tech glasses that enable people with a severe form of vision loss to read have been ...

Astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole straying far from the centre of its galaxy using light from a star being ...

Climate campaigners are angry at reports that the UK government is set to allow oil and gas drilling projects to go ahead, ...

The first of a new generation of drugs that works in a completely different way to existing ones has been approved. Columnist Michael Le Page says this approach could transform treatments for all kind ...

As you get older, your body’s response to food changes significantly. But by making the right changes to what you eat from midlife and beyond, it might be possible to add a decade to your life ...

An increasing number of studies have linked ultra-processed foods with depression, anxiety and even dementia. Columnist Helen ...

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, ...

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients ...