SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

The White House EffectDirected by Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk, streaming on Netflix from 31 October The opening...

Tackling climate change is an inherently collectivist endeavour. We only have one planet, with one atmosphere, and whenever anyone...

In the 2020s, the US was spending an eye-watering $182 billion a year on locking up its citizens. No...

If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible...

Skin irritation promotes hair growth on mice by stimulating their fat cells – and a serum could bring about...

Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus,...

A tiny genetic tweak can make pigs completely resistant to classical swine fever, a major problem for farmers around...

The vessel rolled in the swell as fishers pulled huge nets bursting with tuna onto the deck then poured the catch down a loading hatch.But Melissa Cronin wasn’t there for the tuna. She was looking for ways to save...

Painful experience has taught Erika Moore that benign doesn’t always mean harmless. Moore, a biomedical engineer at the University of Maryland in College Park, lives with noncancerous tumors in the uterus called uterine fibroids. “That’s what drew me in...

New parents have plenty to fret about – sleeping, feeding, the colour of their newborn’s poo – but their...