SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Scientists have engineered tobacco plants to produce five powerful psychedelic compounds normally found in other plants, fungi and animals...

The history of North America’s Indigenous peoples is fraught with stereotypes – and often seen through a European lens....

The myriad ways in which deforestation in the Amazon could deleteriously impact the climate aren’t a new revelation. In...

A quantum computer capable of breaking the encryption that secures the internet now seems to be just around the...

At dusk, the greatest migration of biomass on Earth unfolds through the oceans in near silence, largely unnoticed. Trillions...

On a summer morning a couple of years ago, we went for a hike on the fabled Bright Angel Trail, one of the most popular trails in Grand Canyon National Park.As scholars of tourism and...

The global surge in solar power is nothing short of extraordinary. Over the last 15 years, the cost of installing a...

A virus that ordinarily affects marine animals has caused glaucoma-like symptoms and even irreversible vision loss in a small...

Sam Peate, from the NHS Humber Health Partnership, which has hospitals in Grimsby and Scunthorpe that will be affected by the strike, said: "Unfortunately, it is unavoidable that some patients will have their appointments and procedures postponed as a...

Researchers are at odds over a claim that droughts helped trigger conflicts in late Roman Britain. Climatologists identified evidence...