Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...

I vividly remember getting my first pair of glasses as a child. My mum is very near-sighted and dispatched me to the optician ...

An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use change finds no sign emissions will peak this ...

There are two monumental problems with the world’s food system. Firstly, hundreds of millions of people can’t afford to buy enough nutritious food to stay healthy. Secondly, it is incredibly ...

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

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...

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Today, Tomorrow & Beyond’ which highlights the businesses solving problems of today and tomorrow, including how we deliver ...

Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene editing can make them sweeter without decreasing yields ...

Never underestimate what a single gopher can achieve in a day: one of the burrowing mammals helped boost soil fungi in an area blanketed by ash from the explosive eruption of Mount St Helens in Washin ...

Droplets of fluid have been known to hover above a hot surface, but a new experiment suggests the same can happen to tiny ...