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Young seabird couples get 'divorced' with little i...
Thick-billed murres normally mate for life, but young couples are more likely to break up, despite s...
Human noise pollution drives monkeys to rely on co...
Tamarins living near cities in the Amazon Rainforest use odour to communicate nearly twice as often ...
'Dark earth' made by Amazon farmers stores carbon ...
Nutrient-rich soil known as “dark earth” has been cultivated by Indigenous farmers in the Amazon for...
Corkscrew-shaped microbot could use sound to spira...
Microscopic helical robot travels through narrow tubes when exposed to sound, and could eventually b...
Suppressing worrying thoughts may improve our ment...
Rather than recalling and focusing on fearful thoughts, it might sometimes be useful to avoid these ...
Prehistoric people in Spain may have made tools fr...
The Cueva de los Marmoles cave in Granada, Spain, was used as a prehistoric human burial site. Resea...
Rishi Sunak's weakening of UK net-zero policy is a...
Cutting carbon emissions means replacing the heating systems in homes, transforming transport and gr...
Holly tree species not seen by scientists in 200 y...
No sightings of the Pernambuco holly tree had been confirmed since the species was first identified ...
Earliest evidence of buildings made from wood is 4...
We tend to think that ancient humans were constantly on the move, but at a site in Zambia there are ...
Brain damage linked to schizophrenia may spread as...
Brain scans show loss of tissue starting in small areas when people first experience psychosis, and ...
Silkworms genetically engineered to produce pure s...
Spider silk has been seen as a greener alternative to artificial fibres like nylon and Kevlar, but s...
How dark matter-powered stars could solve a huge c...
Astronomers say they have spotted evidence of stars fuelled by the annihilation of dark matter parti...
UK's Online Safety Bill to become law, but can it ...
After years of political wrangling, wide-ranging online rules are about to become UK law - but compl...
Vaccine that erases immune memory may help treat m...
An experimental vaccine that erases the immune system’s memory of a molecule could be used to stop a...
The entire brain may be involved in language, not ...
Brain regions identified as “language centres” are actually hubs that coordinate the processing of l...
Watch a cyborg cockroach navigate a maze
Remote-controlled cockroaches are not a new idea, but now researchers have found a way to steer the ...
Stick insects that are normally asexual may occasi...
Some animals reproduce asexually by creating embryos from unfertilised eggs, but this can lead to a ...
Extinct Tasmanian tiger yields RNA secrets that co...
RNA, which regulates the activity of DNA, is a crucial part of building an organism - and now resear...
