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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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

As breakthrough medications are beginning to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, innovations such as virtual reality ...

A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes they are all ...

Constant loss of smell, facial pain and a blocked nose are a reality for the 10 per cent of people living with chronic ...

Samples retrieved from asteroid Ryugu indicate that it once had flowing water in far greater volumes than previously thought ...