It will be some months before the true toll of Europe's worst-ever heatwave is confirmed, but researchers can estimate a ...

Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit territories in Canada has ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

From friendship in a world of chatbots to what it means to be alive, this month’s new popular science books are asking some ...

A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles would cause commercial ...

The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

The longevity space isn’t just for humans. Science is uncovering new ways to keep our pets healthier for longer too.

A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks left – but then she was ...

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

Aya Koda's Tree is an account of the late writer's visits to Japan's most famous, and ancient, trees. Featured in Wim Wenders ...