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

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

AI and Google Street View have created 'digital twins' of living trees in North American cities – part of a huge simulation ...

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

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

You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars. Here’s what life would really be like on the ...

An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed an unknown magma reservoir within the ...

An AI-assisted robot can listen to spoken commands and assemble 3D objects such as chairs and tables out of reusable building ...

SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. Next week's launch – if ...

Campaigners are calling for stricter controls on rodenticides after finding that birds of prey in England are increasingly ...

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 ...

Most assessments of global warming use 1850-1900 as a baseline, but researchers have now established a new pre-industrial reference by using Antarctic ice cores to estimate the average temperature bef ...