A common sunscreen ingredient, zinc nanoparticles, may help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common ...

Biodiversity loss is a crisis – and it is now clearer than ever that the world is not moving fast enough to fix it. The COP16 ...

Whether you are roasting a chicken in the oven, browning onions in a frying pan or choosing a spread for your toast, oils are at the heart of our culinary activity. We have a dizzying array of choice.

The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old. Named ...

In just a few days’ time, thousands of delegates from almost every country on Earth will arrive in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. The meeting is a chance ...

Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century cemetery is made up of bones from many people spanning thousands of years – but we don’t know who asse ...

When I first started my fitness journey, I wanted to maximise my workout. If I was going to be sore and sweaty, I figured I might as well make the most of it. Building fitness requires pushing your ...

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional ...

In September, an awful truth was brought to light. Ever since contact was lost with the Franklin expedition, an 1845 attempt by the British Royal Navy to find a path through the Arctic’s ...

Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits on how fast or slow any ...

Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter photons, which could lead to ...