Rhys Blakely

There are hundreds of examples of primates playing with, grooming or adopting ‘partner’ animals in its review of friendly social behaviour, a study has found

Britain was beating dementia. Now the tide may be turning and optimism is fading

If the observatory is saved, what other project should lose funding instead?

A wheel bearing had failed on the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire. Replacing it meant raising the entire structure - the latest act in a maintenance regime that has kept its dish turning for nearly seven decades.

Brian May, Johnny Marr and Jarvis Cocker are among more than 200 public figures who have called on Andy Burnham to intervene over planned funding cuts

Pupils who opened accounts aged 11 or 12 scored significantly worse in maths tests by 16, compared with those who had waited

A pioneering researcher at UCL has called for the spectrum disorder to be split into clearer groups as diagnoses soar

A vast network of monuments, roads and ceremonial sites has been found beneath the canopy of the rainforest

The clearest images yet of our star show how its surface is alive with vast ‘whirlpools’ of plasma — and may explain disruptive solar storms

What time is the partial solar eclipse? When and where to watch the 2026 spectacle