Honeybees rely heavily on flower patterns – not just colours – when searching for food, new research shows.
Efforts to activate "positive tipping points" to tackle the climate crisis have been boosted by a £1 million (US$1.15m) grant from the Bezos Earth Fund.
Scientists have used centuries-old clam shells to see how the North Atlantic climate system reached a "tipping point" before the Little Ice Age.
Multiple climate tipping points could be triggered if global temperature rises beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to a major new analysis published in the journal Science.
Gabon's network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) provides a blueprint that could be used in many other countries, experts say.
Tens of millions of migratory insects cross at least 100km of open sea to reach Cyprus on the way to mainland Europe, new research shows.
Insects are the world’s smallest flying migrants, but they can maintain perfectly straight flight paths even in unfavorable wind conditions, according to a new study from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) and the University of Konstanz in Germany, and the University of Exeter in the UK.
Blood pressure should be measured in both arms and the higher reading should be adopted to improve hypertension diagnosis and management, according to a new study.
Employees who practise mindfulness are less bored at work and less likely to quit, according to a new study.
Cognitive Psychologists at the University of Exeter believe they have discovered the answer to a 60-year-old question as to why people find it more difficult to recognise faces from visually distinct racial backgrounds than they do their own.
Patients should be able to use images and metaphors alongside traditional medical scales to describe their pain to doctors, a new study says.
Prehistoric people in Europe were consuming milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults.
The quest to unravel the mystery behind the formation of the first quasars in the early universe has taken a significant step forward.
Artificial intelligence systems that are trained to align with human values could be used to develop more popular economic policies, a new study has found.
Swans give up resting time to fight over the best feeding spots, new research shows.
Scientists have identified more than 1,500 genetic differences between migratory and non-migratory hoverflies.
New research highlights how the risk of wildfire is rising globally due to climate change – but also, how human actions and policies can play a critical role in regulating regional impacts.
A new "resilience sensing system" can identify ecosystems that are in danger of collapse, research shows.
The research addresses a question that has divided opinions among philosophers, economists and political scientists for many years
New research highlights how the risk of wildfire is rising globally due to climate change – but also, how human actions and policies can play a critical role in regulating regional impacts.