The focus is on finance at the UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, this month, but countries are a long way from any kind of consensus ...

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.

When my ginger rescue cat Marmalade crawls on my lap and meows at me urgently, I often find myself wishing I really knew what ...

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 ...

DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and ...

If every chimpanzee on Earth were given a typewriter, they wouldn’t reproduce the works of William Shakespeare even if they kept on typing until the heat death of the universe, researchers have ...

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

Soil is full of an uncountable number of viruses, and scientists are only beginning to understand just how substantial their ...

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

It’s been detected in birds on every continent except Australia, seals in South America, foxes in Canada, as well as poultry, ...

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