Your circadian rhythm influences mood, metabolism and even how well you respond to medical treatment. Now we finally have the ...

Around 8 million years ago, an ancestor of modern tomatoes in South America hydridised with a plant called Etuberosum, and this reshuffling of genes gave rise to the potato ...

Mice with a handful of cancerous cells in their lungs experienced a 100-fold increase to this number after being infected ...

Creatures that lurk more than 9000 metres deep in the Pacific Ocean get their nutrients from a surprising source ...

Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehistory women were rulers, ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the ...

A giant stick insect species found in Australia’s Wet Tropics named Acrophylla alta can reach 40 centimetres in length and ...

Satellite images reveal how a subglacial lake erupted through the Greenland ice sheet – a phenomenon never witnessed before ...

An iron-air battery in the Netherlands, which can store energy for 100 hours or more to make renewable power sources more consistent, has become the world’s first “rust” battery to connect with an ele ...

A battery made from cheap and non-flammable iron and salt could provide emergency power in one of California’s high wildfire ...

An analysis of thousands of forest plots reveals an underappreciated link between animal biodiversity and carbon storage ...