A spider species eat their siblings as soon as they die but tolerate each other when they are alive, suggesting a mysterious ...

Beekeepers often experience some seasonal losses, but this past winter, more than half of all US honeybee colonies died off, ...

Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – ...

A more precise definition of the second is crucial to all sorts of physical measurements – but to get there, scientists have to pack up their extraordinarily fragile optical clocks and take them on to ...

As China’s vast electrical grid relies more on wind, solar and hydropower, it faces a growing risk of power shortages due to ...

Wakes from offshore wind farms can reduce the power generated by neighbouring farms – an issue that is growing more prevalent ...

A widely used artificial sweetener increases brain activity in regions involved in appetite, suggesting it makes people ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...

Some researchers propose that countries should start to rack up a carbon debt once they exceed their carbon budget, obliging ...

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust ...

People seem to be less impressed when others lose weight with the drug Ozempic than when they achieve it via lifestyle ...