Chen Ly

A scientific drilling ship has burrowed further into Earth’s mantle than ever before, obtaining new clues about the processes that feed oceanic volcanoes and the possible origins of life

See the incredible shots that have won this year's BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology Image Competition

Greg Eghigian's After the Flying Saucers Came and Luis Elizondo's Imminent both show how our fascination with UFOs goes beyond simple curiosity

Sign up to our weekly newsletter Sign up These images are taken from a new book, Seeds: Time capsules of life , which explores how plant life has flourished in the past 360 million years

These dazzling images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are from the upcoming book Cosmos: Explore the wonders of the universe, which has a foreword by astrophysicist Becky Smethurst

A mouse's tumours, scales from a butterfly's wings and a smiling cross-section of a bracken fern are some of the incredible images from the Nikon Small World photography competition

Marie Curie redefined the role of women in science by training a generation of “lab daughters” to have stellar careers, shows Dava Sobel's detailed and intimate new biography, The Elements of Marie Curie

Endurance sank beneath the ice during Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition. More than a hundred years later, researchers document their own saga of how they found the vessel

A pair of photos, taken nearly six decades apart, reveals dramatic ice loss in the Arctic linked to climate change By Chen Ly