A hybrid grolar bear saga is unfolding in the Arctic, and the tale of this strange family has much to tell us about nature on ...

Helena Saremba is a freelance science writer from Germany. She reports on health, climate and the life sciences, with a ...

Small bursts of mindfulness practices lasting a minute or less can have unexpected benefits for those with busy lives - ...

Children regularly exposed to temperatures over 30°C (86°F) have lower scores on literacy and numeracy tests at age 3 to 4, ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

Screen time has been linked to all sorts of problems, from depression and obesity to poor sleep. But how worried should you really be? Jacob Aron sifts through the evidence ...

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin ...

Tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to a shift in the body’s metabolism that means muscle cells outcompete cancer cells ...

We know that pets influence our microbiome, but scientists have now found that having a dog seems to change this ecosystem in ...

There is relatively little information on the long-term health effects of tattooing, but a couple of recent studies suggest ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...