Terrifying spider species found to hunt in packs and co-ordinate attacks on prey These spiders take down their prey in packs using specialised vibrations felt through the web.
Women could be mothers at 50 as study successfully ‘reverse-aged’ human eggs Israeli researchers effectively made eggs from 40-year-old women resemble those of 20-year-olds.
Amazing marine life now covers the 107-year-old Endurance shipwreck Celebrating the sea creatures that now call Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship home.
Covid brain is real: Study shows virus shrinks regions of the brain Researchers at the University of Oxford have confirmed that, in some cases, Covid can literally shrink regions of the human brain.
Pig oinks have been translated into emotions for the first time A 'pig translator' developed by scientists could be put to use improving animal welfare.
People should eat bugs and use poo to grow crops, scientists suggest Insect poo, that is - not human poo.
Single blood test for over 50 different genetic diseases developed An international team hailed it as a 'gamechanger' and it could be in clinical use in two years.
Lead pollution ‘has reduced the mental powers of more than one in two people’ Putting them at an increased risk of Alzheimer's and other neuro-degenerative and cardiovascular diseases.
Covid-19: Risk of severe disease could be in your blood, research finds There are biological factors involved in Covid that are less well understood.
Spear-boned beast, thought to be one of the earliest dinosaurs, unearthed in China Believed to be one of the oldest members of the iconic Stegosaurs.
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant: Could shelling mean another Chernobyl-style disaster? The danger is not the shelling, but the loss of power to the nuclear plant's cooling system.
The perfect chip butty formula has been confirmed by science The key to a lip-smacking sandwich is achieving the optimum ratio of chips to bread.
Mystery of mummified ‘mermaid’ with human face and fish tail will finally be resolved It was allegedly caught in the Pacific Ocean, off the Japanese island of Shikoku, between 1736 and 1741.
Here’s why getting back into exercise is so hard after you take a break The test subjects had the same interest and desire to exercise, but were physically less able.
Dogs ‘feel grief and mourn when other pets die’ Nearly 90% of respondents reported a change in the behaviour of their surviving dog.
Archaeologists uncover 40,000-year-old human culture in China Evidence of a lifestyle among hunter-gatherers tens of thousands of years before the Great Wall of China was built.
Noble false widow spider recorded devouring a pair of bats in Shropshire It's the first time the invasive spider species has been recorded attacking and eating a mammal.
Dinosaur ‘broke its wrist while having sex’ 68 million years ago Palaeontologists say it would have had a limp while the broken bone was healing.
Treasury officials ‘reluctant to be drawn’ on what getting to net zero will cost the UK The UK is legally bound to achieve net zero by 2050 but MPs can't say what the cost will be to consumers.
510,000,000-year-old starfish ancestor discovered in a churchyard It lived at the bottom of the ocean at a time when most major animal groups first appear in the fossil record.
Looking at old pictures relieves pain, say scientists Feeling nostalgic helps people overcome low levels of pain by reducing brain activity, according to a new study.
Climate change report lays bare ‘irreversible’ impact of global warming Climate change is causing widespread loss and damage to lives, livelihoods, homes and natural habitats.
Drones employed to find out if dolphins are pregnant or not The aerial images let scientists establish whether female bottlenose dolphins are pregnant.
Scientists built a coronavirus from scratch to see how it mutates The synthetic form of Covid acted quickly to replicate and survive.