Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane ...

From the subtle differences between memory lapses and brain disease to the lifestyle changes that can lower your risk, Dr Tim Beanland at Alzheimer’s Society helps you navigate the facts about dementi ...

Asymmetric action is common in animals. For example, a squirrel eating seeds from a pine cone either puts its right paw on ...

This is one of those where infinity might have to be invoked, because frozen peas require zero boiling time.

The answer depends on whether we’re talking about we humans, all life or industrialised society, says one reader ...

If we think first of pure spectral colours consisting of a single wavelength of light, then there’s a simple, obvious answer: ...

A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry ...

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A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over ...

Rowan Hooper met ecologist Suzanne Simard under an oak tree in Kew Gardens, London, to talk about her new book, criticism of ...

Why did humans decide they weren't like other animals, or animals at all? Has this exceptionalism twisted us out of shape?

Scientific disciplines often shy away from asking fundamental "what if" questions. But philosophy – if unencumbered by dogma ...