A reader explains the adaptations that let squirrels make this gravity-defying manoeuvre - which a cat could only dream of ...

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Psychiatric medicine hasn't changed much since the 1960s. Could blocking the effects of chronic inflammation on the brain be ...

A new formulation of cement reflects and emits heat more effectively than normal Portland cement, so it stays much cooler on ...

Free and unimpeded internet access is no longer a convenience or a luxury. It is high time it was made a human right ...

The 100-metre sprint was won by a machine with a time of 21.50 seconds. It was one of many events at the games, which saw 280 ...

Robin Hammond's photographs show the conservation battle to eradicate three species introduced to New Zealand, in order to ...

Inveterate cyclist Matt Sparkes, who has been knocked off his bike by human-driven cars several times, wonders if the arrival ...

Feedback is horrified to discover that the owner of one of the internet's favourite cats, Pépito, has taken the crypto ...

Human delivers an unusually clear picture of Homo sapiens as a species shaped by climate, animals, plants, other hominins and ...

His target here is a real plan from 1983, during the cold war, for a snack bar that doubles as a fallout shelter. It is all ...