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Orcas recorded for the first time hunting and killing blue whales

Findings can help better understand role played by orcas in the marine ecosystem

Heart scan technology could pave the way for life-saving treatments

Researchers will use pioneering imaging techniques to detect scar tissue as it is formed on the heart

Scientists decode why King Baboon spider venom is immensely painful

A bite from the King Baboon spider causes a harsh, burning ache

Meat eating may not have been a big trigger in human evolution as previously thought, study says

Increased evidence of meat eating in Homo erectus explained by greater research of their time period, scientists say

Chemicals in plastic consumer products may trigger obesity and weight gain, study finds

Chemicals from a third of plastic products investigated found to contribute to fat cell development

Did Victorian sexism influence Darwin’s theory of evolution?

A new paper suggests Charles Darwin’s patriarchal worldview led him to dismiss female agency and mate choice in humans. Do his ideas, Matthew Wills asks, still hold up today?

The month dinosaurs were wiped out

Using fish bones and water lilies we may have been able to pin down exactly when the dinosaurs went extinct, explains Michael J Benton

Nearly 50% of blood cancer patients insufficiently protected against Omicron after three jabs, study says

Findings support need for a fourth jab among these vulnerable people, say scientists

Up to 22,500 archaeological sites under theat from climate crisis, experts say

‘Historical time capsule’ at risk at one site, archaeologist says

Tonga volcanic eruption ‘hundreds of times’ more powerful than Hiroshima atomic bomb, Nasa says

Amount of energy released could be equivalent to that of 4 to 18 megatons of TNT

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