Partially burnt trees still standing after a wildfire are typically felled and burned, but a US start-up claims burying them ...

The creaky noise known as vocal fry that people generally associate with young women – and some find irritating – is actually ...

As sellers on the dark web advertise drug-infused e-liquids, researchers investigate the trend for vaping substances like heroin and methamphetamine A project is kicking off in the Sierra Nevada ...

Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane ...

From the subtle differences between memory lapses and brain disease to the lifestyle changes that can lower your risk, Dr Tim Beanland at Alzheimer’s Society helps you navigate the facts about dementi ...

Asymmetric action is common in animals. For example, a squirrel eating seeds from a pine cone either puts its right paw on ...

After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in her controversial call to ...

The answer depends on whether we’re talking about we humans, all life or industrialised society, says one reader ...

This is one of those where infinity might have to be invoked, because frozen peas require zero boiling time.

If we think first of pure spectral colours consisting of a single wavelength of light, then there’s a simple, obvious answer: ...

Rowan Hooper met ecologist Suzanne Simard under an oak tree in Kew Gardens, London, to talk about her new book, criticism of ...

A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over ...