In the foundations of a Maya temple, researchers found the charred bones of royal individuals – possibly evidence of a fiery ...

Up to 17 US states could be peppered with more than a trillion cicadas this spring, and though it has been a while since ...

Weeding robots can sometimes struggle to tell weeds from crops, but genetically modifying the plants we want to keep to make ...

Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert ...

The jawbone of an ichthyosaur uncovered in south-west England has been identified as a new species, and researchers estimate ...

Investigations of the paradoxical link between tinnitus and hearing loss have revealed a hidden form of deafness, paving the ...

Cloud seeding almost certainly did not play a significant role in the flooding on the Arabian peninsula this week – but the ...

Artist Matthew Attard turned to eye-tracking technology to generate a fresh take on images of ships carved by seafarers on ...

Pessimism is a dirty word in climate policy circles. There are good reasons for this, not least that optimism can spur ...

A computer intended to mimic the way the brain processes and stores data could potentially improve the efficiency and ...

One in five adults worldwide is living with fatigue. The general advice is to “do more” - but this isn’t the only solution to ...

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