By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have detected an exotic planet in another solar system where the weather forecast is always dire – a 100 percent chance of the […]

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Europe has now become the epicentre of a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed 5,000 lives around the world, “a tragic milestone”, the World Health […]

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The world’s last woolly mammoths, sequestered on an Arctic Ocean island outpost, suffered from serious genetic defects caused by generations of inbreeding that may […]

By Thin Lei Win ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As water shortages, high temperatures and rising greenhouse gas emissions threaten food production, countries around the world are looking somewhere new […]

By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Researchers in Israel say they have reconstructed the skeleton of a pre-historic human from a long-extinct and elusive species using DNA found in the […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists for the first time have detected water in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star, evidence that a key ingredient for life exists […]

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – A large scientific study into the biological basis of sexual behaviour has confirmed there is no single “gay gene” but that a complex mix […]

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand is asking travelers to make sure they are immunised for measles before traveling to its biggest city, Auckland, as the country faces its worst outbreak […]