From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

Male dolphins have been observed shooting jets of urine into the air and other dolphins seem to follow the stream, perhaps to ...

Wandering salamanders pump their toes full of blood before lifting their feet, a trick that may help them release their sticky grip while conserving energy ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

Burn marks left on trees show that fires occurred frequently in North America from 1750 to 1880, but they tended to be less ...

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for ...

In a barrage of executive orders, President Donald Trump has set the US on course to derail climate goals, biomedical ...

Remarkable archaeological finds are telling a new story of how prehistoric humans turned clothing from a necessity into a ...

An algorithm inspired by quantum computers but used on classical machines can make weather forecasts and other turbulence ...

A numerical error in a scientific paper created alarm around the chemicals in black plastic utensils, but the extent to which ...

Some US states may see the number of power cuts caused by hurricanes jump by 60 per cent by 2100 in a high-emissions scenario ...