Farming is one of the most destructive human activities. Columnist Michael Le Page is excited about developments in ...

An amoeba living in a Californian hot spring is thriving above 60°C, a threshold previously thought deadly to complex life ...

As the world warms, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are escaping from frozen sediments. But with new monitoring tools, we can ...

Children as young as 8 in the US are being prescribed off-label GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, sparking debate about the potential ...

Commentators say the probability of machines wiping us out ranges from 0 to over 95 per cent. Columnist Jacob Aron explains why you shouldn't trust any of those numbers ...