From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...

The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could ...

Conventional computing devices will play a crucial role in turning quantum computers into tools with real-world application ...

Orforglipron, a GLP-1 drug taken as a pill, achieved positive results in people with obesity and type 2 diabetes, although it ...

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...

Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the Cretaceous period may have been made by sea turtle ...

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...

The discovery that a toxin made by bacteria found in dirty water might help trigger ulcerative colitis could lead to new ...

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

The discovery that fat is a communicative organ with a role in everything from bone health to mood is forcing a rethink of ...

A comprehensive UN report has found that cities and towns are home to 81 per cent of the world’s population, much more than ...