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 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 ...

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 ...

A new study amplifies the horror of an excellent series about the doomed Franklin expedition. The Terror is a worthy tribute ...

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

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

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

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

A bird flu virus that has been circulating in dairy cattle for months has now been found in a pig in the US for the first ...

Soil is full of an uncountable number of viruses, and scientists are only beginning to understand just how substantial their ...