Biology

In the past decade, many more great white sharks are being seen in Canada's Atlantic waters. What's drawing them so far north?

A survivor of the shipwreck that inspired the novel Moby Dick had a theory about how a sperm whale could destroy a vessel many times its size – 200 years later, he's been proved right.

Hunter-gatherer communities are a window on how the human species learned to get a good night's rest. Here's what you can learn from them.

University of Warwick scientists have spent years studying indri lemurs.

We often think of allergies as the result of an unlucky hand dealt in childhood, or even before birth. But "any person, at any point in their life, can develop a new allergy".

Commensality – the act of sharing meals – can reduce your risk of depression and dementia.

Humans have become one of the world's greatest evolutionary forces. To survive our cities, animals from urban foxes to glass-climbing lizards are responding with extreme adaptation.