“We are now at a point were I believe if you’re up to date on your vaccines, you have access to treatments … there really should be no restrictions on people’s activities,” Jha said.

Your questions answered about what RSV is, how it spreads, what vaccines are on the way and who is most at risk.

The question of when early man began using fire to cook food has been the subject of much scientific discussion for over a century.

An 8-year-old boy recently killed a venomous cobra in India after receiving a venom-free "dry bite" from the snake and then biting back in retaliation.

It's about electromagnetism, the law of how atoms and light interact, which explains everything from why you don't fall through the floor to why the sky is blue.

It couldn’t have been a case of better timing. Egyptologists celebrating the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, now have a promising new archaeological discovery that appears to have been made in Egypt.

After shocking the mathematics community with a major result in 2013, Yitang Zhang now says he has solved an analogue of the celebrated Riemann hypothesis.

Anthropologists have helped uncork the fascinating history of wine-making—from drunken primates to Stone Age seed domestication to intoxicating religious rite.

Almost 50 years after Apollo astronauts left the moon, the certainty of going back gets a boost

Infrared Capabilities of JWST Reveal Earliest Galaxies in the Young Universe.

Infrared Capabilities of JWST Reveal Earliest Galaxies in the Young Universe

Researchers from the University of Groningen demonstrate that the infrared telescope shows details of galaxies from the time when the universe was only about 1 billion years old. This period is important to astronomers because that is when the first galaxies were formed.

Albert Einstein’s ideas about space-time aren’t exactly intuitive, and they aren’t exactly Einstein’s, either.

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been remarkably successful in describing the gravity of stars and planets, but it doesn’t seem to apply perfectly on all scales.

A new type of heat shield was successfully tested last week, with the hopes this type of inflatable decelerator could be used in the future to land humans and large payloads on Mars or for atmospheric entry on other planets on moons.

A new way of storing renewable energy is providing clean heat through the long Nordic nights.

Novel membranes can remove salt from water.

The test uses iron and microfluidics to make lab testing micro, too.

The “most complicated therapy ever” tailors bespoke, genome-edited immune cells to attack tumors.

In the wake of Elon Musk’s noisy takeover of Twitter, people have been looking for alternatives to the increasingly toxic micro-blogging social media platform.

Detailed gene-activity map could pave way for more precise treatments for many more people with spinal-cord injuries.

We breathe to survive. But a breath of fresh air does more than fill our lungs. New research indicates that breathing impacts our emotions, attention and how we can process the outside world.

Alarmingly, this study also shows that the decline in sperm counts in North America, Europe, and Australia—reported by this team in 2017—has continued and even accelerated in the 21st century.

Yes, but you have to pick the right routine.

According to the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, potassium is an under-consumed nutrient, and because there are health concerns associated with low intakes of potassium, it is considered a nutrient of public health concern.

Everyone struggles to put down their phones, but some families have had enough.

The problems arise when this normally helpful function overreacts or overstays its welcome.

A better understanding of how the hippocampus works in context with other areas of the brain could one day help us tackle memory decline.

Cephalopods living unusually close together have been filmed throwing shells, algae and silt — sometimes at another octopus.

Saving reefs is possible—but there are challenges.

Structural studies of the robust material called sporopollenin reveal how it made plants hardy enough to reproduce on dry land.

The Australian bird is the only animal other than humans known to use a custom-made tool to tap out a percussive beat, a new study says.

For example, almost half of all environmental pressures from food production come from just five countries.

Outside Houston, Exxon wants to produce “blue” hydrogen at its Baytown refinery, reducing emissions with carbon capture technology. Environmentalists warn that such efforts will only entrench fossil fuels while failing to deliver climate benefits.

One surface crack on a PTFE-coated pan releases about 9,100 plastic particles.

Bacteria can fertilize ecosystems but need to be studied closely to identify potential pathogens, scientists say.

While control of Congress remains unsettled, other races around the country reveal a growing — if precarious — tilt toward climate as a priority. 

Campaign group Global Witness found more than 600 people at the talks in Egypt are linked to fossil fuels.

That's more than the combined delegations from the 10 most climate-impacted countries.

Fossil fuel companies continue expanding oil and gas developments despite their net-zero targets.

Thawing permafrost — the long-frozen layer of soil that has underpinned the Arctic tundra and boreal forests of Alaska, Canada and Russia for millennia — is upending the lives of people.

Climate change is no longer a distant threat but is already making us face perilous “tipping points” that could alter our daily lives forever.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement have increased by 1.0% in 2022, new estimates suggest, hitting a new record high of 36.6bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2).