A year after the first case of ash dieback in wild trees in Britain, the disease has now spread across much of England, Wales and Scotland. The public is being…

IBM has unveiled a prototype of a new brain-inspired computer powered by what it calls “electronic blood”. The firm says it is learning from nature by building computers fuelled and…

Young bonobos that are are more “socially competent” are more likely to cuddle and calm other apes that are in distress, research has revealed. Scientists working at an African sanctuary…

Scientists say they are more certain than ever about the impact of global warming on a critical weather pattern. The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) occurs in the Pacific Ocean but…

Experiments on samples of iron and rock held at immense pressures have led to new ideas of how Earth’s core formed. Scientists from Stanford University have shown that iron metal…

Some subordinate female meerkats wet-nurse a dominant female’s offspring in exchange for not being evicted from the group, a study suggests. Researchers found that females were more likely to do…

American scientists are scrambling to preserve vital research programmes amid the US government funding shutdown. Key projects investigating ice loss in Antarctica are among those at risk as plans for…

The Nobel Prize in chemistry has gone to three scientists who “took the chemical experiment into cyberspace”. Michael Levitt, a British-US citizen of Stanford University; US-Austrian Martin Karplus of Strasbourg…

Governments forced to rescue the world’s banking system are being warned there will be no bailout if there is a crisis in the Earth’s climate system. That is the view…

Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion. Harnessing fusion – the process that powers the…