People in industrialised societies seem to sleep for longer than those in non-industrialised ones, but their circadian ...

Grey squirrels can actually come in black morphs, which are doing well in one US city because they're less likely to become ...

Varda, a US firm planning to manufacture pharmaceuticals in low Earth orbit, is expecting its second test capsule to return ...

The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 compared ...

Around the world, the earliest buildings are typically round while later ones are rectangular – but 12,000-year-old buildings ...

A comparison of 263 species supports the idea that large animals have higher rates of cancer than smaller ones. But the ...

Preserved wooden spears from hundreds of thousands of years ago seem to have been suitable for throwing, not just close-range ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped in for a close look at a massive thunderstorm on Jupiter, revealing that it may have ...

Physicists use mathematical assumptions in many situations that forbid time from moving backwards – but that isn’t ...

When offered a choice of bowls, free-ranging dogs in India tend to approach a yellow one much more than blue or grey ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

The discovery that farming might not have been the catalyst for civilisation means we must completely rethink the timeline of ...