The measles vaccine has prevented 60 million deaths since 2000. So why are so many children around the world missing out on ...

The amount of rainfall in the southern Amazon basin has declined by 8 to 11 per cent since 1980, largely due to the impact of ...

Chiara Marchisio is a freelance journalist who writes about science and tech. She has an MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences. Her work has appeared in New Scientist, Science News and Italian ...

An evolution-inspired framework for how quantum fuzziness gives rise to our classical world shows that even imperfect ...

A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuroimmune response after a heart attack, which may pave the way for new therapies ...

Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He explains why he thinks these super-sponges will define the next century ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause temperatures to rebound ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s climate, especially those ...

The company’s mega-constellation is having to perform a huge number of manoeuvres to prevent a collision in Earth orbit ...

Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one pesticide that could cause ...