6 August 2018
There could be a planetary threshold beyond which the earth will keep warming even if we stop pumping out more fossil fuels - the so-called 'Hothouse Earth' scenario
30 July 2018
A study that brings together many different findings concludes that miscarriages are even more common than we thought
25 July 2018
The European Court of Justice has just ruled that organisms created by any new methods for tweaking the DNA are subject to the same laws that govern GM ones
6 August 2018
A study suggests men in some societies who are violent to their partners may have more children – but that doesn’t mean that evolution favours domestic violence
14 November 2018
Tall buildings in Houston made hurricane Harvey dump more rain on the region, before the water ran straight off the city's hard surfaces causing epic flooding
18 July 2018
Around 100 million years ago, this baby snake hatched on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean and then got stuck in resin oozing from a tree
18 July 2018
Ireland is set to become the first country to sell off all its investments in fossil fuels, but efforts to limit global warming must go much further
11 June 2018
Genome editing with CRISPR may select for cells with mutations in a key anti-cancer gene, but now we know of this risk it should be possible to ensure treatments are still safe
5 June 2018
We know almost nothing about the enormous beaked whales because they spend so much time deep underwater, but a new DNA technique could unmask them
19 June 2018
We thought we knew about most of the species in our bodies’ microbiomes, but a study has revealed a large number of previously-unidentified organisms
