Science

The East African Rift is a network of valleys that stretches from the Red Sea to Mozambique. Here, we see cultivated...

A sculptor's rendering of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis / An image of a rock painting discovered in a cave in...

Night owls have a higher risk of death than early birds, but that might come down to the overall amount...

The first reported use of a hypersonic weapon in combat was on 18 March 2022, when a Russian Kinzhal missile...

Space A distant star called FU Orionis has been shining extraordinarily bright for the last 85 years, and it may...

Scum floating on the Ribble river near Clitheroe in Lancashire, UKAshley Cooper/Alamy The monitoring of UK rivers hasn’t been updated...

Cleaning up the Thames in LondonThames21 Are you concerned about the state of the UK’s waterways? Would you like to...

Mind Neural recordings from chickadees have found unique patterns of activity that occur when they hide food and then retrieve...

Life Lab-reared insects sometimes struggle to compete for mates with wild males, but an encounter with a robotic replica seems...

In 2017 Ray Kaplan, a parasitologist and veterinarian then at the University of Georgia, started receiving e-mails from colleagues around...