In his series The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson highlights the tension between an unfolding environmental ...

Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary ...

It can be difficult to work out which books count as climate fiction. Emily H. Wilson reads the shortlist for the Climate ...

We all know that walking is good for us, but growing evidence reveals that the right hike can exponentially enhance the ...

A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, ...

Human wounds take almost three times as long to heal as those of other primates, which may come down to our lack of fur ...

Research aiming to answer the great mystery of how consciousness arises is continuing to spark debate, with arguments over whether one leading idea - integrated information theory - even counts as sci ...

AI-powered deepfake videos with altered facial expressions can display realistic heartbeats through skin colour changes, ...

The Trump administration has dismissed all of the researchers working on the next installment of the National Climate ...

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest ...

Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University of Zurich ...

Putting air filters in classrooms seems to boost student attendance, which may be due to them reducing levels of air ...