From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

Male dolphins have been observed shooting jets of urine into the air and other dolphins seem to follow the stream, perhaps to ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

Wandering salamanders pump their toes full of blood before lifting their feet, a trick that may help them release their sticky grip while conserving energy ...

From narcos to navigating FARC paramilitaries, Angela Maldonado has been spearheading a campaign to protect the Amazon's night monkeys from an illegal wildlife trade ...

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for ...

Burn marks left on trees show that fires occurred frequently in North America from 1750 to 1880, but they tended to be less ...

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...

An algorithm inspired by quantum computers but used on classical machines can make weather forecasts and other turbulence ...

A numerical error in a scientific paper created alarm around the chemicals in black plastic utensils, but the extent to which ...

Remarkable archaeological finds are telling a new story of how prehistoric humans turned clothing from a necessity into a ...

An industrial waste product has been converted into a component for batteries that can stably store large amounts of charge. Such batteries could perform a vital function for power grids by ...