Environment

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like chimpanzees, or...

Mark Poynting,Climate researcher,Becky Dale,Senior data journalist, BBC VerifyandJess Carr,Data designerGetty ImagesRenewable energy - considered crucial to limiting climate change - produced a record amount of electricity in Great Britain in 2025, BBC analysis shows.Wind was the biggest single renewable...

Pallab GhoshScience CorrespondentBBCListen to Pallab Ghosh read this articleLarissa Hope truly believes that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, saved her life.Back when she was 17 and starting out as an actress, she was cast in the TV...

In the endless white expanse, a small mound broke the horizon. As explorer Matthieu Tordeur and glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre...

Despite providing nearly a fifth of US electricity generation, nuclear power in the country has stagnated for decades. Regulatory...

The mystery of how Mars acquired its moons, Phobos and Deimos, may start to be unravelled in 2026 with...

For me, this year is going to be all about self-care via the stars. It has been 20 years since...

If your windowsills are anything like mine, they are filling up with the first batches of seed sowings for...

Science Museum How can these four pictures be images of the same region? What force could possibly transform the Pantanal...

A Vietnamese-American astronaut has opened up about her depression after she received a "tsunami of harassment" following the world's first all-female space trip earlier this year.Amanda Nguyen - a 34-year-old scientist and civil rights activist - was part of...