The French delicacy foie gras could be made more ethically thanks to a technique that replicates the way fats are metabolised in force-fed birds, although the process still depends on farmed animals.

An exoskeleton suit helps people sprint faster, according to the results of a small study. Elite athletes could one day use the suit in training sessions to improve their running performance, although ...

Researchers have created a textile made from the parasitic fungus Cordyceps militaris, which is biodegradable and can be ...

The Deep Space Network is our best way to communicate with spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit, and one of its three stations ...

To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing ...

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

When it comes to supplements to stave off the effects of ageing, columnist Graham Lawton admits he is a hardened sceptic. But ...

Humans have been observing solar eclipses for millennia – carving, painting, sketching and finally photographing as the moon ...

The belly button, it turns out, is one of the least-studied parts of the human body. But one of its great mysteries may now have been solved – why most people have an innie, or concave belly button.

When researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Now we have an ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

Footballing robots have had an upgrade. Two-legged robots trained using deep reinforcement learning, which is driven by artificial intelligence, can walk, turn to kick a ball and get up after falling ...