Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide that reached Asian ...

Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow ...

A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and reveal the ultimate fuzziness of time ...

There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but researchers may have finally come up with one: a ...

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Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...

A record-breaking new version of Starship, due to launch within days, could form the basis of NASA's ambitious Artemis ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Work, illness, divorce: life is riddled with stressors out of your control. But research is revealing new ways to cope with ...

Storing carbon dioxide in rocks while producing hydrogen from them - and perhaps even geothermal power too - could be a ...

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health ...

Vaccine misinformation, nurse and doctor shortages and crowded living arrangements may be behind soaring rates of diphtheria ...