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

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

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

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 ...

A search for particles’ most paradoxical quantum states led researchers to construct a 37-dimensional experiment ...

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 ...

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

In a barrage of executive orders, President Donald Trump has set the US on course to derail climate goals, biomedical ...

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

The US Congress is expected to vote on whether to confirm Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the nation’s public health institutions ...

In Europe as a whole, the increase in deaths from hot weather over the next century will outweigh the decline in deaths from ...