The final point where the glacier rests on bedrock – the grounding line – retreats as warmer ocean water melts the ice shelf, accelerating its break-up. The downward slope of the bedrock means that, ...

Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a ...

Women who were vaccinated against covid-19 in the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle reported having a breakthrough ...

David Samson is associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

A rare variant of a gene called TP53 means Tracy Hutchinson has an extreme risk of developing cancer anywhere in her body, ...

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little ...

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the ...

The current temperatures in western and central Europe would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, and unprecedented ...

A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike 3 billion years ago, but ...

Around a third of people are able to almost fully rebuild their brains after a stroke and uncovering why is pointing the way ...