It has long been claimed that only one mammal – the golden mole – has fur that shimmers with rainbow colours, but it now ...

Cleaning up air pollution has saved millions of lives, but it has also given us an inadvertent taste of a nightmare climate ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at ...

An estimate that as many as 1.3 million wildebeest move across the Serengeti-Mara landscape each year has been cut down to ...

A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes they are all ...

Our friendly – and not so friendly – gut bacteria lie at the core of healthy ageing. Research is now revealing what it takes ...

The planet TRAPPIST-1e lies in its star’s Goldilocks zone, where water remains liquid – and an analysis suggests it might ...

Surprising discoveries about the species responsible for 90 per cent of mushroom-related deaths is revealing the fungi ...

A possible galaxy named Capotauro may have formed within 90 million years of the big bang – but astronomers can’t be sure ...

Constant loss of smell, facial pain and a blocked nose are a reality for the 10 per cent of people living with chronic ...

A carved figure found in northern France, dated to 27,000 years ago, may reflect how hair was styled in a culture that ...

People who made the greatest gains in muscle power over eight weeks of resistance training also improved the balance of ...