After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to ...

How do sea molluscs create the consistent patterns on their shells? How do they know when and how to change the pigment?

A new show at the Royal West of England Academy brings together a series of works that interweave art and science ...

A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

If the world exploded, what proportion of the rocks floating in space would have evidence of life? (continued) ...