Science
Flame-resistant variety of cotton could cut need for toxic...
White cotton can normally only be made fire resistant by adding toxic flame retardants,...
Watch rare livestream of bald eagles nesting on eggs in...
Two eggs laid by a pair of nesting bald eagles in California are the latest symbol...
Endangered insects captured in vivid photographs
Photographer Levon Biss's project Extinct and Endangered: Insects in peril combines...
The best video games out in 2023
From exploring the world of The Expanse to Starfield, a sci-fi role-playing game...
How to force your rhubarb for an earlier, sweeter crop
Depriving rhubarb plants of light for several weeks forces them to grow fast and...
Strong El Niño could make 2024 the first year we pass 1.5°C...
Early modelling suggests the world’s climate could shift to an El Niño pattern towards...
Protected areas in Britain fail to stop loss of insects...
Invertebrate monitoring data from 1990 to 2018 show that protected areas in Britain...
Supermassive black hole snacks on the same star once every...
A black hole almost 900 million light years away consumes part of an orbiting star...
Men predicted to outnumber women in physics until the year...
An analysis of nearly 5.5 million scientific papers has found that, on current trends,...
Pancreatic cancer linked to disrupted circadian clocks...
Circadian clock genes in almost all our cells follow regular 24-hour patterns, but...
Gas stoves harm our health and the climate - should they...
US authorities are reportedly considering a ban on new gas stoves in light of research...
Inside an insect farm: Are mealworms a sustainable meat...
The French biotech company Ÿnsect plans to open 15 mealworm factories by 2030. We...
Lizards that survived wildfires are more alert to the sound...
Western fence lizards that experience wildfire learn that fire is a major threat,...
Breakaway iceberg raises concerns over Antarctica’s 'doomsday...
A massive iceberg that has been stuck on the seafloor in front of the Thwaites glacier...
Why we shouldn't attribute human motivations to animals...
Anthropomorphising animals such as chimps, dolphins and bees will stifle scientific...
The worst-case climate scenarios are no longer plausible...
Ten years ago, we feared that catastrophic global warming of between 4°C and 5°C...
