Cambridge researchers are developing implants that could help repair the brain pathways damaged by Parkinson’s disease.

The findings echo Charles Darwin’s research with finches nearly two centuries ago.

If every dog ate a vegan diet, it would prevent the equivalent of the UK’s annual CO₂ emissions.

The history of spying shows that many agencies have experimented with using animals for undercover work to gather information.

Biodiversity researchers tested vision systems on how well they could retrieve relevant nature images. More advanced models performed well on simple queries but struggled with more research-specific prompts.

Animal welfare laws don’t protect invertebrates, but there’s evidence that some, such as octopuses, are as intelligent as many mammals – even if their cognition takes very different forms.

Rising carbon dioxide levels in the air are making plants grow larger and faster, but diluting their nutritional content. This could threaten the health of herbivores worldwide.