Some jobs are more satisfying than others, and they're not necessarily the ones with a high income or a lot of prestige ...

The Tropical Forests Forever Facility, an initiative spearheaded by Brazil, would raise money from investments and pay ...

Waste from old landfill sites is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode coastlines - and some of it is toxic ...

Several recent experiments showcase a sharp increase in the number of quantum bits that can be entangled, echoing Moore’s law ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into space ...

Women were historically excluded from health studies on the grounds that hormone fluctuations introduced "noise" into the ...

Chinese researchers have developed an extremely energy efficient and low-cost technology for extracting uranium from seawater, a potential boon to the country’s nuclear power ambitions.

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

A newly described poison dart frog, which is about the size of a thumbnail, has been found in the forests of the Juruá river ...

Dyson spheres, a type of huge megastructure designed to capture the energy output of a star, would be a sign of an alien ...

In spite of policies requiring housing projects in England to benefit nature, many of the trees, habitats and nest boxes ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...