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Among people of high socioeconomic status, love for nature corresponds with a bigger environmental footprint - and there's an obvious reason why ...

Three missions slated to launch this year will begin to search the lunar surface for a suitable base location ...

Three missions slated to launch this year will begin to search the lunar surface for a suitable base location ...

Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping in the quantum realm ...

Gold is chemically inert and so doesn't tarnish, but exactly why had been a mystery ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth - and elsewhere - may have begun ...

Critical safety equipment in many train systems is vulnerable to disruption by space weather, which could lead to fatal accidents ...

Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a highly toxic plant chemical, to alleviate pain during surgical procedures ...

Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide that reached Asian countries ...

Men who do not produce sperm can't be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow their sperm in the lab. Columnist Michael Le Page suspects this technique will have to be combined with gene editing if it is to ...