A gene found in humans can help plants thrive in arid regions

Researchers are trying to end malaria at its very root: by genetically modifying mosquitoes that carry the disease

Scientists may soon explain the mys-terious behaviour of some icebergs. They have discovered a submerged "ice foot" extending more than 50 metres (m) out to sea from the wall of a glacier. This could

Scientists discover "chimneys" on the sea floor, hope to get an insight into how the ecosystem works

The collision of a meteorite with the Earth produced energy about a million times more than the largest earthquake ever recorded

New findings suggest that our ancestors did not tame fire as early as is believed

Far from being avid shift workers, young honeybees are quite hopeless when it comes to timekeeping

The frozen remains of Otzi the Neolithic hunter contain the best-preserved nervous tissue yet discovered in an ancient human, say German biologists. Climbers stumbled on the Tyrolean ice man in the