Droplets of fluid have been known to hover above a hot surface, but a new experiment suggests the same can happen to tiny ...

You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars. Here’s what life would really be like on the ...

SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. Next week's launch – if ...

An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed an unknown magma reservoir within the ...

An AI-assisted robot can listen to spoken commands and assemble 3D objects such as chairs and tables out of reusable building ...

Campaigners are calling for stricter controls on rodenticides after finding that birds of prey in England are increasingly ...

Experiments show that illuminating the underside of a decoy seal reduces attacks by great white sharks, revealing a possible ...

Seven major datasets used to train audio-generating AI models are three times more likely to use the words "man" or "men" ...

Never underestimate what a single gopher can achieve in a day: one of the burrowing mammals helped boost soil fungi in an area blanketed by ash from the explosive eruption of Mount St Helens in Washin ...

Most assessments of global warming use 1850-1900 as a baseline, but researchers have now established a new pre-industrial reference by using Antarctic ice cores to estimate the average temperature bef ...

Extreme weather and a growing population is driving a food security crisis. What can we do to break the vicious cycle of carbon emissions, climate change and soaring food costs – or is it already too ...

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic fi ...