Surplus wind power can be used to heat up water in flooded mines – a test of the idea is being planned in Scotland in 2024 Between November 2022 and October 2023, global average temperatures rose to 1 ...

Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its ...

The company’s mega-constellation is having to perform a huge number of manoeuvres to prevent a collision in Earth orbit ...

Tiny robots that can transport individual neurons and connect them to form active neural circuits could help us study brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease ...

Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one pesticide that could cause ...

Your chronological age can’t always tell you the state of your health, which is why biological clocks have been developed to show our risk of developing diseases or dying – but they’re not all they ...

An “epigenetic” adaptation could prevent large numbers of loggerhead turtles from hatching as female due to climate change – ...

Sumit Paul-Choudhury is a writer, technologist and entrepreneur based in London. He is the founder of Alternity, a creative studio which explores alternative histories, social experiments and ...

Two nonchalant physicists, one with a wry smile, are monitoring some of the most advanced quantum technology in the UK, an ultra-stable laser at the National Physical Laboratory in London. This ...

Whether it be singing, dancing or crafting, engaging in the arts is good for our health, and we're beginning to understand ...

The anus is a wildly successful innovation, but how did it evolve? A genetic analysis suggests it probably began as an opening used to release sperm that later fused with the gut – an example of ...

The evidence that children were better off being vaccinated against covid-19 than getting infected by it during the pandemic just got even stronger. The largest-ever study, involving nearly 14 million ...