Science

Sometimes, you work tirelessly on a problem, only to realise you have been going about it all backwards....

We may now know how Mercury gained its ice depositsNASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Around 100 million years ago,...

Caesar (Andy Serkis) leads the fight in Rise of the Planet of the Apes20thC.Fox/Everett/Shutterstock Rise of the Planet...

For me, the past year has been what might euphemistically be described as “challenging”. Not long after leaving...

The planar unit distance problem is about how many equal-sized lines you can draw that connect dots on...

Hot flushes are associated with the menopause, but women actually get progressively hotter from the start of adulthood...

Tyrannosaurus rex wasn’t the only predatory dinosaur with small armsROGER HARRIS/Getty Images/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY With jaws like these,...

The plain of jars in LaosAlvov/Shutterstock The remains of at least 37 people have been found interred in...

A scanning electron micrograph of an embryonic muscle cell differentiating in to a skeletal muscle cellSTEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO...

Melting glaciers, like the one in Ilulissat Icefjord, could release vast stores of methaneGerald Wetzel, Karlsruhe Institute of...