Colin Barras is a science writer focusing on life sciences. He has a BSc in geology from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, a PhD on the Jurassic ...

The author of space opera Slow Gods digs into the details of exploring what happens when a planet is about to be destroyed by ...

Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a ...

Antimatter has finally hit the road. Around 100 antiprotons took a 20-minute trip on the back of a lorry around the CERN particle physics laboratory’s campus near Geneva, Switzerland. This ...

An open-source flight-control system found in consumer drones has been installed in Ukraine’s latest cruise missile, showing ...

Experiments will take advantage of the solar eclipse in August to learn more about the sun and Earth at a relatively low cost ...

Zombie, or senescent, cells accumulate in our body with age, when we become less able to clear them. But a study in mice ...

Powerful artificial intelligence models built by Chinese companies have gone from inducing widespread panic to being met with ...

The 2026 Tour de France has been the hottest ever. Norwegian-method pioneer and Uno-X Mobility coach Olav Aleksander Bu ...

A black colobus monkey from a remote part of the Congo Basin rainforest, known locally as likweli, is thought to be severely ...

Coffee improves short-term memory and speeds up reaction times by acting on the brain’s prefrontal cortex, according to a new study. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to ...

The mummified daughters of pharaohs who lived thousands of years ago have bone changes that suggest they fought with bows and ...