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Under pressure from Elon Musk's DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust research to educational programmes ...

Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what makes human culture unique ...

As semaglutide-based weight loss treatments such as Ozempic and Wegovy become more popular, new side effects are emerging - and one is hair loss ...

Urine that has sat in the sun for a while seems to fertilise crops while warding off pests, without affecting the produce's taste ...

At the Dakshineswar temple complex in India, Hanuman langurs beg for food by grabbing visitors' legs or tugging on their clothes - and they don't stop until they get their favourite snacks ...

After a container ship struck and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, researchers began calculating the risks of similar catastrophic incidents for other US bridges - and they're surprisingly high ...

Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on the walls of the caves ...

By studying the brains of autistic girls, we now know the condition presents differently in them than in boys, suggesting that huge numbers of women have gone undiagnosed ...

An eavesdropper hiding inside a black hole could still obtain information about quantum objects on its outside, a finding that reveals how effectively black holes destroy the quantum states near their event horizons ...

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million years. A fossilised leg belonging to a strikingly small member of the group raises questions about how it did so ...