Astrophysics

Sea turtles may be more resilient to global warming tha...

An “epigenetic” adaptation could prevent large numbers of loggerhead turtles fro...

Why singing, dancing and engaging with art is good for ...

Whether it be singing, dancing or crafting, engaging in the arts is good for our...

Hybrid megapests evolving in Brazil are a threat to cro...

Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to ...

SpaceX’s Starlink dodged 300,000 satellite collisions i...

The company’s mega-constellation is having to perform a huge number of manoeuvre...

Why did magic mushrooms evolve? We may finally have the...

Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psyc...

Ancient bacterium discovery rewrites the origins of syp...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may giv...

Ancient giant kangaroos could have hopped despite their...

Long thought to have walked bipedally, like us, Australia’s extinct giant kangar...

Our oral microbiome could hold the key to preventing ob...

A distinct set of microbes has been identified in people with obesity, which mig...

Does limiting social media help teens? We'll finally ge...

A trial will finally reveal whether limiting the time teens spend on social medi...

Strips of dried placenta help wounds heal with less sca...

Donated placentas can be processed into thin, sterilised sheets that are packed ...

Natural ovulation the best option before an IVF frozen ...

Women using frozen embryos as part of their IVF treatment can either choose to u...

Piercing crocodile close-up wins ecology photo competition

A striking shot of biting flies on the head of a crocodile is among the winning ...

Bird retinas work without oxygen, and now scientists kn...

The light-sensitive tissue of birds’ eyes is not supplied with oxygen by blood v...

Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable than w...

A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus,...

Oldest known rock art is a 68,000-year-old hand stencil...

Newly discovered rock art sites in Sulawesi, Indonesia, that date to nearly 68,0...

Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes

Extraordinary fossils of 518-million-year-old jawless fish, among the earliest k...

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