Science

As the future generations commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe’s job is to help guide the government's decisions for the benefit...

At 18 months old, Aurea Yenmai Smigrodzki is inquisitive like any other toddler. She likes peanut butter, the beach, and...

Disposable gowns designed to deflect the splatter of bodily fluids, used in thousands of U.S. hospitals, have underperformed in recent...

This photograph of Comet Leonard is one of the dazzling cosmic images shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year...

Around 2030, the Landsat program will launch its next satellite, called Landsat Next. It will bravely break from the numerical...

For millennia, many animals and plants have coped with occasional climate changes by moving into new areas. But humans’ relatively...

The EuroFusion consortium hopes its DEMOnstration Power Plant will take fusion power from the lab to commercial electricity supply by...

Which inner voice do you have? The "faithful friend", the "proud rival", the "ambivalent parent" or the "helpless child"? Getting...

DeepMind researchers have trained an AI system to find a popular policy for distributing public funds in an online game...

Pioneering reparations programmes meant to address decades of US housing discrimination against Black homebuyers could get a boost from AI...

The promise of a new diet that can add as much as a decade to your life is certainly tempting...

Electrodes implanted in the brain were known to release impulses that may "normalise" overactive connections within a specific circuit of...

Invasive worms, considered a major threat to native ecosystems, have been found in 97 per cent of areas for which...

We have a lot to thank photosynthesis for. Our entire existence, for a start. About 3 billion years ago, a...

Finally, we have the crane itself. I left off some of the unimportant forces here—the most critical are the forces...

Drought is typically thought of as a simple lack of rain and snow. But evaporative demand—a term describing the atmosphere's...