Strange bursts of radio waves called FRBs have long been mysterious, and one of the most famous sources of these flashes may have an unexpected planet ...

Plants are often celebrated for the parts that are easy to see – flower, leaves, fruit – but scientists are uncovering the secrets of their more mysterious underground networks ...

Climbers and workers at indoor climbing walls may be breathing in large doses of potentially toxic rubber additives, according to a study reporting that the air and dust in climbing centres contain ...

The global bumblebee population has declined since the 1950s, sparking speculation on the causes – researchers have suggested ...

The Chang’e 6 spacecraft is heading to the moon, to bring back samples from its far side. The Chinese mission, which is due to blast off between 830 and 1100 GMT from the Wenchang Satellite Launch ...

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Levels of protection measles provided by the MMR jab fall by a small amount every year, according to mathematical modelling ...

An analysis of the 2021 German federal election has found that for every 200,000 times a politician's social media adverts ...

The skull of Shanidar Z was found in the Shanidar cave in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and has been painstakingly put back ...

The record-breaking heat of 2023 has seen a rare disagreement break out between climate scientists, with some saying it shows ...