Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in 2024 are set to blow past last year’s record levels, dashing hopes this ...

Many migratory birds use Earth’s magnetic field as a compass, but some can also use information from that field to determine ...

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...

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

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

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

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 ...

AI and Google Street View have created 'digital twins' of living trees in North American cities – part of a huge simulation that could help make urban tree planting and trimming decisions ...

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" ...