Water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to fall dramatically as the climate gets hotter, posing a major threat to economic ...

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical language, rather than translating back and forth ...

A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we know how this baffling evolutionary quirk ...

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more harm than good ...

A classic study found that people can fail to notice a gorilla when they are focusing on something else, but new experiments ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene editing can make them ...

The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries ...

Rates of near-sightedness are rising all over the world. But solutions to the epidemic are coming into focus and could be ...

Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could ...