Facing its worst drought in decades, Iran is attempting to stimulate rain by spreading seeding agents in clouds, but the ...

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...

The discovery that fat is a communicative organ with a role in everything from bone health to mood is forcing a rethink of ...

A 12,000-year-old clay sculpture found in Israel depicts a goose on the back of a woman, and archaeologists suggest it may be ...

A major settlement in Central Asia called Semiyarka dating back to 1600 BC had houses, a big central building and even an ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...

RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gene activity in an animal that died nearly ...

When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

Mild wounds healed faster if people took a spray containing the "love hormone" oxytocin and set aside time to praise their ...

Being born with two X chromosomes brings a host of health benefits, and recognising this could lead to personalised medical ...

There is growing evidence that our reliance on generative AI tools is reducing our ability to think clearly and critically, ...

Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, or mono – before, but we now have evidence of ...