After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons ...

An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but many cosmologists are leery of the idea ...

The production of medicines is a high-stakes industry where efficiency and environmental impact often collide. Given that the pharmaceutical industry is one of society’s biggest polluters, solving ...

International collaboration, supported by Horizon Europe Funding, is the crucial ingredient in reducing the environmental footprint of medicines, say researchers ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory ...

Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to ...

How do sea molluscs create the consistent patterns on their shells? How do they know when and how to change the pigment?

A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according ...

If the world exploded, what proportion of the rocks floating in space would have evidence of life? (continued) ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...