Solving challenges like climate change not only requires ambitious targets, but also an honest appraisal of uncertainty and possible failure

When exposed to air, an eerie green light is emitted by these neatly arranged chunks of hybrid living material, created by impregnating balsa wood with fungus

It may sound strange, but mathematicians have created an entire ladder of infinities, each larger than the next. Now a new kind of infinity threatens to upset that order, and perhaps redefine the structure of the mathematical universe

A bird-inspired robot called RAVEN can walk, hop and jump into flight, an ability that could help people develop fixed-wing drones that can take off and land anywhere

Parts from dozens of different individual comb jellies have been fused together to create strange new animals unlike anything seen before