Hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic pollution are created each year. One option may be to turn the pollution into food, ...

The cooling of the North Atlantic is creating waviness in the jet stream and high-pressure ridging over Europe, a study finds ...

Renowned climate scientist James Hansen says the developing super El Niño has already "blown past" previous events with ...

Intense fires are already burning in Indonesia, and there could be much worse to come as the Super El Niño ramps up ...

Biogerontologists are exploring the upper limit for human life. A recent study has it verging on two centuries – but ...

Official' projections for how much the world will warm are already catastrophic, and now it appears they significantly ...

For the past decade, depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, which has a vital role in memory. But a large ...

A personalised mRNA cancer vaccine has produced positive results in a final-stage trial involving skin cancer, raising hopes ...

Brain organoids have been grown and studied for five years, the longest time to date, and their activity suggests they had a ...

Water flow in the river Thames has dropped low enough to warrant the use of England’s only large-scale desalination plant, ...

To gain the benefits of sleep, it was thought that the whole brain must switch off. But experiments suggest micro-napping ...

People with ADHD are unusually sensitive to hormone shifts. Psychiatrists have started to pay attention, creating strategies ...