Environmental factors like hormone-disrupting substances may be contributing to testosterone decline, scientists say

A remote ‘lost world’ discovered off the coast of California could offer new clues as to the origins of the first Americans — and could potentially even rewrite what’s known about the nation’s history.

North America was responsible for nearly half the growth in global emissions throughout 2025, led by one country in particular.

“Dotterel are in steep decline, and we are seeing them disappearing before our very eyes,” the RSPB’s Dr Leah Kelly said as a survey showed the dotterel’s remaining numbers are restricted to the eastern and northern Highlands of Scotland.

Scientists have long debated whether the AMOC is nearing collapse, but the latest findings are certainly alarming.

Online reaction to a punishing heat wave affecting parts of the United States and Canada has turned into a familiar climate dispute about accountability.

A guide to observing the 12 August 2026 from the UK and Ireland, including best places to see it and key timings for maximum eclipse.

During the August 2026 solar eclipse, scientists will be rushing to gather data on the sun, but even if you aren’t a professional scientist, you can still help the research

“Her story will continue to inspire generations of future explorers. Fly Wally, Fly.”

ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover will investigate possible signs of life in Martian clay.

Conservationists fear more nests may have been destroyed during work on Jarrow houses by council-appointed contractor

Langstone, Hampshire: Tree bumblebees are generally placid, but they’re not keen on someone prodding their home with the end of a bamboo cane

Hundreds of dolphins die in fishing nets every year. How adding this one thing to nets s could help save them

This giant wasp would not be a welcome guest at your picnic, says Kitty Aldis

The world’s biggest wasp nest is longer than a Cadillac and shaped like a nose

Known from just a handful of fossils, Laophis remains one of the most intriguing and elusive giant snakes ever discovered.

The unusual specimen raised eyebrows because it appeared capable of causing levitation. An official investigation has not settled the matter, some UFO enthusiasts say.

Achieving criticality is just the first step toward power for the grid.

Clues have emerged that reveal a much hotter history than we thought.

A surprisingly common substance was found to have a causal relationship with the kind of brain damage associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

The study includes research supervised by Dr Christofer Clemente, an evolutionary biomechanist at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland

Bees are known for being incredibly smart – this recent discovery confirms that their ancient counterparts were just as resourceful.

An experiment with a charged molecule of bismuth and carbon reveals how effects from Albert Einstein’s special relativity reshape the standard understanding of chemical bonds

As soils become saltier, roots are deploying remarkable survival strategies that could help safeguard future food supplies.

Man likely survived stabbing and healed for a period before his death

The Starship Pez dispenser demonstrates very smart industrial design and scale.”

I think it’s fair to say that Phase 3 did not contemplate this.”

These huge, terrifying, prehistoric pig-like creatures were the t-Rex of their day, says Will Newton

The new synthetic cell grows and divides on its own.

Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a feature of nervous systems that we see in our own right- and left-handedness

‘They also have a similar density to shaving foam.’

Researchers found hundreds of organisms hitchhiking on a plastic bottle cap and warn that this type of pollution could cause invasive species to move into new areas

just how communicative were neanderthals?

Sea ice loss seems to have triggered a decline in the nutrient nitrate, affecting the tiny organisms that form the foundations of marine food chains and absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study

Climate change could significantly weaken Italy’s long-term economic growth and make its already heavy public debt burden harder to sustain, with output potentially lowered ​by up to 6% by 2050, according to a study released on Wednesday.

Estonia, Luxembourg and UK are the top three in biennial Yale University index in tackling pollution and other issues

The European Union could allow industry to emit CO2 for longer and give companies more free carbon permits ​under plans drafted by the bloc to make its emissions trading system more flexible, a ‌European Commission official said on Wednesday.

China added wind and solar capacity at breakneck speed, yet a sizable amount of that potential clean generation was never delivered through the grid.

WILLOW, Alaska—Corey Ercolani pulled a northern pike from a gillnet and slit its belly with a knife. Inside its guts lay fresh evidence of a growing biological crime: a dead juvenile salmon. A coho, or silver salmon, to be exact. A technician with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Ercolani had set the net […]

A European Southern Observatory study on planned artificial satellites said proposals would completely destroy our view of the night sky.

ispace is betting on a booming lunar economy.

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid’s strange shape. Data gathered by the probe will also help defend the planet against potentially threatening space rocks

“Observations of sun-like giant stars currently point towards Earth’s survival, but we need better observations before we can be certain.”

MPs demand publication of full report that outlines catastrophic consequences amid concerns for food security

Marine researchers in Australia have found what might be the most toxic species of microalgae ever studied.

In a clip from the BBC’s Evolution, Chris Packham explains how ants have evolved to become efficient hunters

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or a coda. But sound recordings suggest that eastern creatures use a sped-up version of the western whales’ coda

Animal relationship status can range from ‘it’s complicated’ to ‘divorced.’

Living, hunting and raising young together, this social spider forms one of the largest cooperative groups of any arachnid in the world.

Biodiversity arguments are often made in the language of loss and grief. This one is made in the language of function — what each of these species actually does, and what stops working when it no longer does it