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Vladimir Putin’s Russia is as much an imperial power as its Soviet and Tsarist predecessors were.

Earthquake lights are among nature’s most strange, most ephemeral, and hard-to-explain phenomena. While rare, and only recently accepted by science, they have been reported for hundreds or even thousands…

Drugs are finding their way into lakes and rivers, and we need to know exactly what they’re doing to wildlife.

The famous American gothic author’s death has long remained a mystery – but new research sheds some light on the ‘suicide hypothesis’.

Song by song streaming services may be hurting the album commercially, but its place in our cultural lexicon will be harder to shake.

It is the physics discovery of the century – even bigger than the Higgs Boson. Here’s how it happened and what it means, by a key member of one of the lead teams

How the artist found endless variety in the daily view from his bed, cycling through the seasons with kaleidoscopes of light, colour, texture, form and space.

Progress, in historical terms, has so often meant clearing places of their native inhabitants – both human and non-human.

POV shots can be extremely effective, presenting an entirely new way of looking at a character, or their motivations.

The latest data from the Dawn space probe points to underground ice flows and a water vapour atmosphere.