“Most solar panels convert around a quarter of light they receive into electricity, which is good, but they could be more efficient,” Margot explains. “By mimicking the ways seaweeds can absorb and ...

An extinct species known as Agriodontosaurus helsbypetrae has revealed new twists in the tale of lizards and their relatives.

One way of monitoring this phenomenon is using environmental DNA. Known as eDNA, this is genetic material from animals and plants that is shed into the water. Like how forensics may sample a crime ...

New research has looked at the impact of higher ocean temperatures of Prochlorococcus, a bacteria which carries out as much ...

Amid the soaring peaks and meandering rivers of Tràng An, Vietnam, a 12,000-year-old skeleton was recently found buried in a ...

The Natural History Museum today celebrates construction commencing at its new state-of-the-art collections, research and digitisation centre.

To confirm this really was a Middle Jurassic stegosaur, finding where the bones originally came from was vital. There were no vertebrate palaeontologists in Morocco at the time, so Susannah began ...

Whilst in the newly transformed gardens, Their Royal Highnesses joined some of the students for outdoor learning activities.

Together, the evolution of thumbnails and claws might have helped rodents to eat different foods and enter new environments, from climbing trees to digging underground. This adaptability has allowed ...

Despite the impression that there’s not much living at the planet’s poles, they support hugely productive waters. This is why, for example, many species of whales will migrate to the colder waters to ...

Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the Natural History Museum’s gardens today, where they heard from students transforming their school grounds from ‘grey to green’ ...