Astrophysics

Gas from Uranus reveals it has an icy centre

Carbon monoxide in Uranus's deep atmosphere indicates that the planet contains m...

Almost the whole of Japan moved eastward after 2011 ear...

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku ea...

Waves reflecting off Earth's core shifted Japan after 2...

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku ea...

Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals con...

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians,...

Why El Niño’s impacts on the UK are hard to predict

A planet-warming El Niño climate phase has begun, but while the phenomenon can i...

Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years longer...

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospit...

Cervical cancer deaths have plummeted thanks to HPV vac...

We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduce...

Ancient monument marked summer solstice centuries befor...

Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago...

No young women have died of cervical cancer in England ...

We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduce...

Ancient monument may have been an early Stonehenge prot...

Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago...

Chilling the body with drugs could limit brain damage f...

Putting brain cells into a hibernation-like state via drugs that cool down core ...

Autism and ADHD are on the rise due to widening diagnos...

A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria ...

Pigeons lock their eyes in place when they are flying

Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons ...

Oldest known plague outbreak killed hunter-gatherer chi...

DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more t...

Walking shark found in Papua New Guinea is new to science

Hemiscyllium dudgeonae is the tenth recorded species of walking shark, which use...

Arctic Ocean reaches tipping point that could be dire f...

Disappearing sea ice is letting more sunlight in the Arctic Ocean and boosting p...

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