A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with the aim of making graphene, rather than light. They succeeded, and they ...

Saad Bhamla and his research group have been studying the behaviour of an ‘extraordinary zoo’ of organisms, hoping to find ...

Apes share the human ability to imagine and pretend, suggests new research that included a series of tea party experiments.

In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too.

The Great Barrier Reef is in such rapid decline that Australian researchers are now trying something that once sounded like science fiction: brightening clouds to cast a protective shade over the ...