Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. In its latest ...

We have long been inspired by the idea that life could reside on Mars – human or otherwise. But fiction is getting closer to ...

A reader is worried about socialising without the confidence boost she gets from alcohol. But studies show that the chemical ...

After delays and false starts, Jeff Bezos's firm Blue Origin has reached orbit with its first launch of the New Glenn rocket, ...

Rebutting the serotonin theory of depression exposed an important gap in our knowledge. But Joanna Moncrieff's new book ...

The shipping industry is planning to swap some fossil fuels for green ammonia – but that could create a major new source of ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it ...

Scientists are scrambling to understand how climate change may be interfering with the winds that carry our weather, with ...

A series of events, from the California wildfires to evidence we passed 1.5 degrees last year, suggests wild weather will ...

This month marks a year since the malaria vaccine rollout began. Here's what we still need in order to beat a disease as old ...

Feedback explores the upsides (and downsides) of Publish or Perish, a game that simulates the experience of building a career ...

Astronaut Don Pettit took this stunning photo of a nearby comet from the International Space Station ...