From narcos to navigating FARC paramilitaries, Angela Maldonado has been spearheading a campaign to protect the Amazon's night monkeys from an illegal wildlife trade ...

Wandering salamanders pump their toes full of blood before lifting their feet, a trick that may help them release their sticky grip while conserving energy ...

A search for particles’ most paradoxical quantum states led researchers to construct a 37-dimensional experiment ...

Male dolphins have been observed shooting jets of urine into the air and other dolphins seem to follow the stream, perhaps to ...

From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

Mice that were free to scratch their itchy ears saw the number of immune cells go up and levels of infection-causing bacteria decline ...

Some US states may see the number of power cuts caused by hurricanes jump by 60 per cent by 2100 in a high-emissions scenario ...

The US Congress is expected to vote on whether to confirm Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the nation’s public health institutions ...

Feedback is intrigued (and terrified) by a new paper that suggests you could set off a ridiculously gigantic nuclear bomb deep under the seabed to mop up carbon dioxide ...

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic traditionally use polar bear fur for its ice-resistant properties, but the science behind ...