Albatross feathers from museum specimens have allowed scientists to construct a record of mercury pollution dating back more than 100 years.

The US space agency awards funds to the companies it thinks may be closest to offering commercially run systems to carry American astronauts into space.

More research is needed into a controversial fertility treatment, known as three-parent IVF, before it can be considered safe, a review says.

Turbulence produced by motor boats kills significant numbers of zooplankton, creating previously unrecognised ecological impacts.

A huge collection of gazelle remains sheds light on the ruthlessly efficient hunting methods used 6,000 years ago in what is now Syria.

A 275-million-year-old reptile fossil shows the earliest evidence of oral infection, hinting at the origins of our own susceptibility to tooth decay.