Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures ...

Russia's only launch site capable of sending humans to orbit has suffered serious damage that may take two years to fix. Will NASA keep supporting the ISS without Russian involvement, or is this the ...

Observe the longest remaining total solar eclipse of this century in the northern foothills of Morocco's Riff mountains. New ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man who received non-resistant ...

Vets have developed a training protocol to help cats benefit from water-based rehabilitation therapies, in spite of their ...

Archaeologists have gathered evidence from hundreds of Bronze Age sites in western Turkey that could be remnants of a ...

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

Google is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units – a type of computer chip specially designed for AI – to ...

Dental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes to the oral microbiome at ...

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment ...

Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a ...