SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Civilisations name their ages after materials. In school, we learn about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age – and...

After a heart attack, the heart “talks” to the brain. And that conversation may make recovery worse.Shutting down nerve cells that send messages from injured heart cells to the brain boosted the heart’s ability to pump and decreased scarring,...

Spiders’ ability to spin webs may be one consequence of a really big genetic mistake.A close look at the genetics and development of spinnerets — spiders’ silk-making organs — reveals that an early arachnid doubled all of its DNA...

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the longleaf pine. The forest once stretched across 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas,...

Snow has returned to the Philadelphia region, and along with it the white residues on streets and sidewalks that result from the over-application of deicers such as sodium chloride, or rock salt, as well as...

Andrew Aitchison/Getty ImagesThe government's Warm Homes Plan promises £15bn to help UK households pay for green technologies such as heat pumps, as part of its efforts to drive down energy bills and cut planet warming emissions.Heating homes accounts for...

Our world seems to be fundamentally fuzzy at the quantum level, yet we do not experience it that way....

Michelle RobertsDigital health editorGetty ImagesThe menopause is linked to changes in the brain similar to those seen in Alzheimer's, according to a large UK study.The loss of grey matter in areas involved with memory and emotion might partly explain...

I'm something of a treadmill hater. When I do hop on one, it's only during times when it's truly unsafe to run outdoors....

To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December might have looked like standard hardware. But NASA and GE Aerospace researchers watching the unit fire up for a demonstration knew what they were looking at: a...