It lived well over 550 million years ago, is known only through fossils and has variously been described as looking a bit like a jellyfish, a worm, a fungus and lichen.

Experiments carried out at Oxford University have revealed that tectonic plates are weaker than previously thought.

An international team of astronomers has detected titanium oxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time.

New research disputes claims that climate change helped spark the Syrian civil war. A new study, published today in the journal Political Geography , shows that there is no sound evidence that global climate change was a factor in causing the Syrian civil war.