Despite facing real existential threats like climate change, we remain too fascinated by the end of the world, argues a new book

Overfishing of small fish has led to population declines in the birds that feed on them. Now the UK government's attempts to protect this crucial resource faces a serious challenge

Feedback is intrigued by a theory arguing that when maleness is threatened, men overcompensate with increased support for war and homophobia – and interest in SUVs

Palaeontologist Riley Black is back with a thrilling guide to how animals and plants co-evolved over millennia

When faced with real-life controversy over the thorniest of research topics, we can seek guidance from fiction

Why pour so much technological effort into developing a human-shaped robot when it could be any shape at all, asks Leah Crane

The electrons in a twisted piece of graphene show a strange repeating pattern first predicted in 1976, but never directly measured until now

The electrons in a twisted piece of graphene show a strange repeating pattern first predicted in 1976, but never directly measured until now

Wearable technology could go beyond smartwatches to items of clothing that monitor large parts of your body

Wearable technology could go beyond smartwatches to items of clothing that monitor large parts of your body

By far the oldest evidence of humans living in dense forests comes from a site in Ivory Coast, where stone tools and plant remains reveal a human presence stretching back 150,000 years

By far the oldest evidence of humans living in dense forests comes from a site in Ivory Coast, where stone tools and plant remains reveal a human presence stretching back 150,000 years

Climate models predict that even under extreme warming, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken but not collapse entirely – although this could still have serious impacts

Climate models predict that even under extreme warming, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken but not collapse entirely – although this could still have serious impacts

Should that meeting have been an email? Is it ever ok to send a voice note? Andrew Brodsky has studied the communication habits of 100,000 people and has the answers

Should that meeting have been an email? Is it ever ok to send a voice note? Andrew Brodsky has studied the communication habits of 100,000 people and has the answers

TUDCA from gut E. lenta hinders AMPK activation and neutrophil phagocytosis, worsening bacterial lung infection in patients with bronchiectasis.

An AAV9 vector expressing both BCKDHA and BCKDHB rescues two murine models and a calf with classic maple syrup urine disease.

An electroadhesive hydrogel interface achieves 30-day gastrointestinal retention for prolonged porcine mucosal theranostics.

Early bone marrow transplant with busulfan preconditioning halts sickle cell–mediated arterial damage in a humanized mouse model.