People in New Zealand have cut down so many trees, some native insects are losing their wings. In the space of 750 years, humans have changed...
The sexbots are coming – or rather, they’re already here, and they’re becoming ever more sophisticated and life-like. That means official rules and laws around their...
About 3,500 feet under the South Pacific sits a piece of land 2 million square miles in size – about half as big as Australia. But...
East-facing sunflowers are happier, healthier, and more productive than those that face other directions – and it’s all down to the warmth of the morning Sun....
When plants first ventured onto the land, evolving from freshwater-dwelling algae, more than 500 million years ago, they transformed the planet. By drawing carbon dioxide from...
Archaeologists have finally figured out how Arthur’s Stone, the famous Neolithic monument that inspired the ‘stone table’ in The Chronicles of Narnia, came to be. Ever since...
In today’s anthropogenic world, an innocent hermit crab, just minding its own business and swimming in its search for food, has far more than the usual...
We know that metabolism – the rate that we burn calories to keep our bodies running – changes as we age, but little is really known...
Within months of SARS-CoV-2‘s emergence as a global catastrophe it was becoming clear that many who spread the disease did so unwittingly, experiencing not so much...
For countless women, preventing pregnancy means using contraceptives that can come with serious side effects, ranging from the unpleasant to the unbearable. But researchers are working...