Environment

Professor Paul Fletcher believes that exploring how the brain makes predictions about the world will help us to understand mental illness.

The amazing diversity of flowers is a biological mystery that has long intrigued scientists. Dr Beverley Glover explains how new understanding of...

Mother birds communicate with their developing chicks before they even hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research by a team from the...

Two different projects which aim to improve our understanding of the nature of, and statistical realities behind, health scares, natural disasters...

An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that...

The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

Industrialists, academics and government should join forces to drive a new industrial revolution which would help tackle climate change, says a new...

A consultancy project with grand designs is informing the structure of energy-efficient homes of the future.