Science

New research shows how the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a long-used model organism, can use electric fields to ‘jump’ across Petri...

Non-figurative markings on the walls of La Roche-Cotard cave in France are the oldest known engravings made by our sister...

On January 15, 2022, Hunga Volcano in Tonga produced the most violent eruption in the modern satellite era, sending a...

Health In a study involving 80 people with ruptured anterior cruciate ligaments, 90 per cent had signs of healing after...

Space The stars that orbit close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole are already tough to explain – but...

Space We know there are stars moving fast enough to escape the Milky Way, so the same is probably true...

Life The big white spots seen on the wings of migratory monarch butterflies may have evolved to help them fly...

ByGeorgia StephensPublished June 21, 2023• 5 min readThis article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK).Vancouver Islanders have a name...

ByJason BittelPublished June 21, 2023• 6 min readEvery year, millions of monarch butterflies fly up to 3,000 miles from southern...

ByKatie CameroPublished June 21, 2023• 11 min readIn the summer of 2014, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge quite literally drenched...