Everyone knows them as the Queen's favourite dogs. Yet corgis started out as something quite different – tough herding dogs from Wales.

NASA's Artemis II mission takes four people around the Moon.

A second straight year near record lows – shortfall twice the size of Texas.

New telescope data rule out a lunar impact in 2032.

An electric car charges its battery not only at the socket but also when braking. How this clever trick called recuperation works – and why it saves range.

Millions of roofs carry them – but how does a solar cell actually turn sunlight into electricity? The process behind it is surprisingly elegant and works entirely without moving parts.

Beneath every forest lies a hidden network of fungal threads through which trees exchange nutrients and even send warnings. A look at one of ecology's most fascinating discoveries.

They survive heat, cold, radiation and even the vacuum of space: tardigrades are barely half a millimetre long – and tougher than any other known creature.

Researchers are working on vaccines that protect not against a single virus but against whole families of pathogens – even as they mutate. A breakthrough that could prevent future pandemics.

An animal that really belongs in the Atlantic appears off the German coast. For observers a rare stroke of luck – for researchers a sign of how much the seas are changing.

Power guzzlers in the home: How simple measures can reduce energy costs and increase safety at the same time - multiple socket outlets