Dragonflies the size of hawks once stalked Earth’s skies. Scientists thought they knew why they’d gone away – but a decades old theory may have just been disproven ...

A billion of us are regularly gasping for breath at night… and, despite how noisy that can be, most of us don’t even realise ...

Meet the bearded vulture, known to use man-made objects in its nests which last generations and now act as 'natural museums' ...

It turns out the story has a third character: a little-known, rarely tested type of cholesterol that can account for around a ...

This shifts mass away from Earth’s poles, and – like a figure skater extending their arms mid-spin – slows the rotation.

The world’s most powerful climate phenomenon El Niño is returning – and this time, it may be arriving in record-breaking form ...

Far from a spiritual metaphor, a new theory is shedding light on the bizarre evolutionary quirks that gave us a hidden third ...

A tiny frozen world in the outer Solar System has been found to have an atmosphere, making it only the second object beyond ...

A study comparing different types of ultra-processed foods found that some types are far healthier than others.

A new image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope has shed new light on one of the Universe’s most luminous views.

The most catastrophic dust storm in US history brought mayhem to six states, from Nebraska in the north to Texas in the south. Ferocious winds picked up an estimated third of a million tonnes of dusty ...

But the way he went about it had serious consequences. He turned to alcohol – and developed a severe drinking problem. The ...