Rising temperatures could boost pregnancy risks worldwide — here's how
As climate change fuels extreme temperatures and makes severely hot days more frequent, doctors are concerned about the ...
Volunteers plant 109,000 trees in new woodlands
Image caption, In the last two tree-planting seasons, the Lancashire Woodland Partnership has planted almost 500,000 tre...
A Japanese Spacecraft Aims to Bring Back a Bit of a Martian Moon
The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, is headed to Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars. It could carry bac...
BBC visits wildfire front in haze-choked Indonesia
BBC visits wildfire front in haze-choked IndonesiaTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This ...
Mission set to blast off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon
Image source, JAXAImage caption, The spacecraft will head to Mars's larger moon, PhobosByRebecca Morelle, Alison Fr...
Fears for protected bats if glamping pod plans are approved
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The common pipistrelle was among the multiple species of bat found on the landB...
Returning samples from a Mars moon: Inside the science of Japan's bold MMX mission
Japan's mission to Mars' moons could answer a decades old question dividing the origins of Phobos and Deimos between two...
Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton was a problem-solver for the ages (op-ed)
The world will miss Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering programmer who helped NASA land Apollo astronauts on the moon. But...
'A uniquely direct route that might cause damage': Scientists uncover link between air pollution and eye diseases like glaucoma
A review of 41 studies found that higher exposure to air pollution was linked to greater odds of glaucoma and cataracts,...
On this day in space! Oct. 18, 1963: France's Félicette Becomes the 1st Cat in Space! >^..^<
On Oct. 18, 1963, a cat went to space! Félicette was a French "catstronaut" who became the first and only feline to fly ...
Black Death had dramatic effect on species diversity as humans abandoned farmland, study finds
Researchers have found that during the Black Death, when a third of the population of Europe was wiped out, biodiversity...
Fuel leak spreads more than two miles along River Taff
Image source, Sarah LlewelynImage caption, Residents said the area began to smell "like a petrol station" on F...