Science

Evidence suggests covid-19 infections can lower sperm counts for months, and that the virus can occasionally be found in semen...

Another extreme weather event, another trial for Texas’ infamous electrical grid. As temperatures have soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, residents...

Deep-field images of “empty” regions of the sky from Webb and other space telescopes are revealing more of the universe...

Matthew Ball is one of the first to write a book about that elusive dream of the future, the metaverse,...

Getting less than seven hours of sleep a night regularly, the minimum benchmark for adults, has also been associated with...

What would you do with an extra pair of hands? The idea might sound unwieldy, like too much of a...

By Michael Marshall Painting of a bison from the Altamira cave complexNational Museum and Research Center of Altamira/CC BY-SA 3.0...

Seagrass meadows are vanishing at a rate of 7 per cent a year, but this is a habitat that buries...

Searching tidal pools for creatures and plants is not just for kids. Joshua Howgego went rock pooling with marine biology...

The movie franchise's conclusion features black market dinosaur trading. Although it is fictional, this storyline rings alarmingly true for birds,...

A radical new book argues that a bee may have a mind of its own, awareness of the world, basic...

Feedback investigates weird trolley problems, the Palaeolithic cannibal diet, fussy otters and microrobot dentistry Humans 13 July 2022 Josie Ford...

The Y chromosome, involved in sex determination, mysteriously disappears from some men’s immune cells as they get older – and...

Lasers normally use mirrors to create laser light, but a new kind uses clumps of moving particles. The result is...

It was thought that spongy bone in woodpeckers’ heads cushioned their brains from hard knocks, but in fact their skulls...

Genetic analysis of a woman’s skull from 14,000 years ago found in south-west China suggests she was related to an...