Taylor Mitchell Brown is a science journalist covering anthropology and paleontology with occasional forays into other ...

The slowdown of a major current in the Atlantic Ocean is boosting the sea level and associated flooding in the Northeast US, on top of the already-rising sea level due to climate change.

US President Trump has proposed a Golden Dome defence system that includes missile interceptors in space. But the idea would ...

Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

Many people are worried about the health effects of ultra-processed foods and microplastics, but could these two issues ...

Wildlife carers fostering some of Australia’s most precious animals have had to rescue them one by one from rising waters and ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

Fragments” of West Nile virus have been detected in UK mosquitoes, suggesting that the virus is circulating in the country, ...

Nanoparticle-infused contact lenses can transform infrared radiation into different colours of visible light, potentially ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...