Sci-fi fans can enjoy a new Red Dwarf novel – the first for 30 years – this month, as well as sci-fi horror from Paul ...

Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

The ocean floor is a vast source of potentially revolutionary scientific discovery – yet it remains largely inaccessible. For ...

The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatomy and evolutionary ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...

Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

Chioma Eve is a freelance reporter focused on women's health, biotech and life sciences. She has a degree in biotechnology ...