Childhood obesity rates have surpassed those of undernutrition for the first time, suggesting efforts to combat malnutrition ...

A study of festivalgoers suggests that drinking beer and sharing a bed makes you more attractive to mosquitoes ...

Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like Earth. But astronomers can still assess its shape by ...

Astronomers have struggled to explain why a long and thin cloud forms above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano each year, until now ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...

A 1.3 kilometre swim by a jaguar is the longest confirmed one ever, but the cat's motives for making the journey are unclear ...

The planet TRAPPIST-1e lies in its star’s Goldilocks zone, where water remains liquid – and an analysis suggests it might ...

Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we could safely deflect a space ...

By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, researchers have created ...

Ancient remains from a cave in Serbia show that Neanderthals were hunting mountain goats 300,000 years ago, adding to ...

Cleaning up air pollution has saved millions of lives, but it has also given us an inadvertent taste of a nightmare climate ...