Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs

Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck Earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle

Disease-carrying mosquitoes could be common in Europe by 2030

Scientists have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago

Natural Numbers Game

Simon Donaldson Awarded Wolf Prize for Mathematics

Ultrashort x-ray technique will probe conditions found at the heart of planets

Scientists have developed a sponge that removes over 90 per cent of oil microdroplets from wastewater within ten minutes

Scientists have demonstrated how taking DMT (a hallucinogenic compound found in ayahuasca) affects human consciousness by significantly altering the brain's electrical activity – changing brainwaves to a vivid ‘waking-dream’ state

A crossbow-like weapon with a toxic spearhead, used by bacteria to vanquish their competitors, could be copied to produce new antibiotics