Science

Homes are being built today that could become uninsurable in the future due to the risk of flooding, the boss of insurance giant Aviva has said.Amanda Blanc said the risk of flooding is "absolutely increasing", but based on current...

The first time I was in Punta San Juan, the desert was flooded with birds. It was 2012, and I was making a short documentary film about the cormorants, pelicans and penguins that made this arid peninsula in southern...

People should not have to travel far to experience the joys of nature, conservationists have said, as campaigners push for more wildlife-rich green spaces in urban areas.From Greater Manchester to north London, organisations and volunteers are transforming former industrial...

RNA vaccines and other nucleic acid therapeutics are typically packaged within fatty molecules known as lipid nanoparticles (LNPs). MIT researchers have now come up with a way to produce these particles much more quickly, and with more precise control...

Exquisitely preserved feathers, the first ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop, are providing a peek into how some ancient birds lived — and possibly went extinct.Dense bristles suggest some of the feathers could repel water, possibly as well as...

Available for 35 daysIn October members of the General Conference on Weights and Measurements are voting to change how we keep time on Earth accurate. Currently an additional second, known as a Leap Second, can be added to make...

Warnings of an El Niño unlike any other are starting to become reality.For months, scientists have cautioned that the natural climate pattern could grow into a record-breaking beast, releasing extraordinary amounts of heat from the ocean and fueling droughts,...

This development could change poetry forever. Roses are red and now they’re also blue.True blue roses were once thought impossible. Roses can make red and yellow pigments but don’t have an enzyme needed to make blue pigments. At least...

The most dramatic and tragic natural phenomenon Spain has seen in recent years were flash floods that killed 237 people in the east of the country in October 2024, centred on the Valencia region.Spanish meteorological research group Climatoc-Lab described...

Kearny, Ariz., is a town on the brink. Located at the foot of the Dripping Spring Mountains in eastern Arizona, this small community of 2,000 people sources its water from the Gila River, a verdant waterway that snakes by...