A TED talk and then a film, William Kamkwamba’s story of how he worked to provide his rural Malawian village with electricity ...

The fate of the Atlantic Ocean current that keeps Europe’s climate warm depends on our carbon emissions and the rate of ice ...

Our brains are large compared with other animals, so it is tempting to assume there was an evolutionary advantage to them – ...

Some marathon runners and other athletes swear by beetroot juice shots, but is there evidence they really do anything for our ...

AI companies are hiring philosophy graduates to help them understand the nature of consciousness, whether it can be ...

Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...

NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can ...

Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a ...

A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...

The current temperatures in western and central Europe would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, and unprecedented ...