The focus is on finance at the UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, this month, but countries are a long way from any kind of consensus ...

Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century cemetery is made up of bones from many people spanning thousands of years – but we don’t know who asse ...

When my ginger rescue cat Marmalade crawls on my lap and meows at me urgently, I often find myself wishing I really knew what ...

When I first started my fitness journey, I wanted to maximise my workout. If I was going to be sore and sweaty, I figured I might as well make the most of it. Building fitness requires pushing your ...

In September, an awful truth was brought to light. Ever since contact was lost with the Franklin expedition, an 1845 attempt by the British Royal Navy to find a path through the Arctic’s ...

DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and ...

At the Science Kitchen at Leicester University, UK, a demonstration is under way of a class of coloured pigments in blueberries called anthocyanins. Josh Smalley, a finalist on The Great British Bake ...

Endurance sank beneath the ice during Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition. More than a hundred years later, ...

Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter photons, which could lead to ...

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional ...

Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits on how fast or slow any ...