The first of a new generation of drugs that works in a completely different way to existing ones has been approved. Columnist ...

After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falling ...

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A jaguar that has been dubbed Gaspar traversed 2100 kilometres of the Amazon, crossing farms and roads. But why he set off on ...

Rats are a scourge on island wildlife all over the world. But an island off the coast of Ireland is showing how to ...

Climate change is affecting the yields and flavour of the traditional Japanese tea matcha, but studying its seedlings' ...

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

As you get older, your body’s response to food changes significantly. But by making the right changes to what you eat from ...

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

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

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

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