The Guardian

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 […]

Specially designed ‘ISSpresso’ machine overcomes absence of gravity by firing pressurised water through capsule of coffee

In a winning essay for the Wellcome Trust science writing prize, Kate Szell reports on research into prosopagnosia – face blindness

Half an hour of brain stimulation on sleep-deprived military staff improved their performance twice as much as caffeine

New research challenges an age-old assumption about the basic structure and function of the neuron.

Shooting huge amounts of non-ozone-harming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere could counteract vast volcanic sulphur clouds that cause perpetual winters, new research suggests