The Guardian

New discovery is likely to be a rocky world in the ‘Goldilocks’ zone of its parent star where the temperature is just right for liquid water to flow

Please, journalists, get a clue before you write about science

The creature standing rather unsteadily in a zoology museum in London is among the rarest in the world, and frankly she’s not looking her best. The creature standing rather unsteadily […]

‘The curve that sets everything straight” was how comedian Phyllis Diller once described the smile. And it’s true that there’s something charming, trustworthy and disarming about a smile – but […]

Fossil from tiny plant eater, Aquilops americanus, suggests horned dinosaurs originated in Asia

Early note shows delight at birth of his daughter while later letters show fame was beginning to be a trial

For more than a decade scientists have been at a loss to explain why there are fewer stars than they predicted

Head direction cells in the bat hippocampus encode three-dimensional representations of space

Climate change played a pivotal role in the extinction of mastodons in North America, new radiocarbon dating of fossils has revealed – though hunting by people may have been the […]