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Glimpses into lives of Roman suburbanites in Bath revealed in rare finds | Archaeology

The restoration of a Georgian building in Bath once frequented by Jane Austen has unexpectedly provided a tantalising glimpse into the life of the...

Tree vaccines and gene-edited butterflies among biotechnology projects funded by UK ‘invention agency’ | Conservation

Vaccines for ash trees, skin treatments for newts and gene-edited swallowtail butterflies are among 14 tax-funded projects from the UK’s “invention agency” aiming to...

Adults with severe mental illness die 15 to 20 years earlier from diseases such as cancer | Mental health

Adults with severe mental illness are nearly five times more likely than their peers to die from serious physical diseases before the age of...

Synthetic Human Genome Project gets go ahead

Gwyndaf HughesScience VideographerHow the researchers hope to create human DNAWork has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life...

World’s oldest boomerang older than thought, but not Australian

Helen BriggsBBC environment correspondent•@hbriggsMaciej BiernackiThe boomerang was found near stones, animal and human bonesThe world's oldest boomerang is older than previously thought, casting new...

James Webb telescope captures direct images of Saturn-sized exoplanet | James Webb space telescope

The James Webb space telescope has captured unprecedented direct images of a planet beyond our own solar system, in its first exoplanet discovery.The observations...

Red-letter day as gemologists discover why crimson diamonds are so rare | Science

Red diamonds are some of the rarest gems on the planet: only 24 stones of more than one carat (200 milligrams) have been publicly...

Natural History Museum to display rare dog-sized dinosaur

Georgina RannardScience correspondentReporting fromNatural History Museum, LondonGwyndaf Hughes/BBC NewsThe full name of the new species is Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae dinosaurGwyndaf HughesScience videographerA labrador-sized dinosaur was...

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