Science

Planning change to make installing heat pump easier for...

The rule requiring planning permission if a heat pump is within 1m of a neighbou...

Sellafield could leak until 2050s, MPs warn

A report criticises the speed of decommissioning work at the UK's largest nuclea...

Failing water sector needs stronger regulation, says da...

The Water Commission finds "deep-rooted, systemic and interlocking failures" in ...

Warning after millions of bees escape overturned truck ...

Master bee-keepers are called to the scene after a truck containing 70,000 pound...

Astronauts in space for nine months didn't know if they...

Nasa pair Butch and Suni tell the BBC they feared being unable to get home when ...

UK's muddy saltmarshes vital to tackle climate change, ...

The UK's saltmarshes lock away climate-warming greenhouse gases in layers of mud...

Males of this ancient human cousin weren’t always bigge...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species in...

Students’ mental health imperiled by $1 billion cuts to...

The Trump administration is cutting $1 billion in grants that support student me...

Genetics might save the rare, elusive saola — if it’s n...

A new genetic study could help saolas survive by enabling better searches throug...

A passing star could fling Earth out of orbit

Simulations show that the star's tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing ...

Personalized gene editing saved a baby, but the tech’s ...

The personalized CRISPR treatment could be the future of gene therapy, but hurdl...

‘Silent’ cells play a surprising role in how brains work

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain,...

Bedbugs may have been one of the first urban pests

Common bedbugs experienced a dramatic jump in population size about 13,000 years...

Humans used whale bones to make tools 20,000 years ago

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that...

The first cicada concert was 47 million years ago

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us abo...

Readers discuss the biology of sex, plastic in the brai...

It’s a matter of size A January executive order by President Donald Trump design...