New study highlights urgent need to safeguard deep reefs – one of the largest...

As world leaders, government negotiators, scientists and conservationists gather at the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, to agree to halt and reverse nature loss, an...

Social bees travel greater distances for food than their solitary counterparts, study finds

Social bees such as honeybees and bumblebees have larger foraging ranges, according to researchers at the University of Bristol. The findings, published today in Current Biology,...

New Scottish fossil sheds light on the origins of lizards

A fossil discovery from Scotland has provided new information on the early evolution of lizards, during the time of the dinosaurs The tiny skeleton discovered...

Dynamic oxygen levels may have accelerated animal evolution 

Oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere are likely to have “fluctuated wildly” one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated the development of...

New analysis of shipping emissions reveals that air pollution has a larger effect on...

A group of researchers based at Oxford University’s Climate Processes Group has used novel methods of analysing satellite data to more accurately quantify the effect of...

Calculator which could reduce the level of carbon emissions generated by food production and...

A calculator which could reduce the level of carbon emissions generated by food production and consumption has been developed by data scientists at the...

Face to face with our medieval ancestors

Astonishing 3D images and animations of people who died 700 years ago have been created thanks to a collaboration between University of Bradford archaeologists...

Which new technologies should we expect to see with the future generation of mobile...

The launch of the iPhone 14 has caused a stir across the globe. But even with all the biggest brands releasing a new generation...
Ancient dung has helped provide archaeologists with the earliest evidence of animals being farmed for food

Ancient dung reveals earliest evidence of farmed animals

Ancient dung has helped provide archaeologists with the earliest evidence of animals being farmed for food. Humans were tending animals approximately 12,500 years ago in...
Climate models are unreliable when it comes to predicting the damage that tropical cyclones will do to sensitive coral reefs

Climate models unreliable in predicting damage to coral reefs

Climate models are unreliable when it comes to predicting the damage that tropical cyclones will do to sensitive coral reefs, according to a new...