New breakwater designs and more sustainable materials can cut the carbon cost of coastal defences by 40%.

The approach flourishes because it caters to a child’s inner life. What does it neglect?

Could an experimental forest hold the answers to meeting the UK's big tree planting ambitions?

Genes lost during vampire bats’ evolution may have helped them to adapt to their exclusive blood diet which is high in iron and fluid and low in calories

Combining AI and robotics technology, researchers have identified new cellular characteristics of Parkinson's disease in skin cell samples from patients.

A study involving a total of 14,542 women has found an as-yet-unexplained link between taking antibiotics for at least two months in midlife, and a dip in cognitive score assessments taken several years later.

In this new series, I promise not to write as though I am the first ever to have given birth to a child, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

His “Essays” are a lesson in seeing other points of view

It's not easy to step out of your comfort zone; in fact it's pretty scary. At the same time, you'll experience and learn amazing things; both about yourself and the world around you. Experiencing a new culture is like stepping into a whole new world; you're…

For the first time since satellites started studying the continent, East Antarctica has lost an entire ice shelf.

A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s groundbreaking planned surveys, which will analyze millions of galaxies strewn across space and time. The mission’s enormous, deep panoramas will…

The DNA of people who lived in Great Britain thousands of years ago has markers of natural selection at work – and the driving force seems to have been a shortage of vitamin D

The bird, which sought prey in a part of China 6 million years ago, had eyes shaped in a way that suggest it was not nocturnal like most owls living today.

Nature Microbiology - Large-scale gut microbiome analysis of a widely use mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease reveals that the gut microbiome is a driver of variability across genetically...

In March 2022, old sea ice crumbled away as new ice formed off the coast of Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land. Sea ice around Antarctica started to regrow after reaching the lowest extent ever observed in the satellite record in late February 2022. But on local…

A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports lends support to a body of research suggesting that reading on electronic devices reduces comprehension. The study found that reading on a smartphone promotes overactivity in the prefrontal cortex, less…