Solar geoengineering, if weaponised, has the potential to deepen global inequality and escalate conflicts worldwide.

Mary Shelley, often overlooked in sci-fi history, was the first-ever science fiction writer. Inspired by cutting-edge debates ...

In 1815, Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa (present-day Indonesia) erupted causing the most powerful volcanic eruption ever recorded in human history, spewing tons of sulphur dioxide into the ...

But AFP traced the image back to Spanish news agency EFE's database, where it was identified as being taken on Mount Etna in 2004. Greek experts have said the Santorini tremors were not linked to ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. But more than 2,000 years before this, the 2,000ft volcano suffered ...

Now, scientists have used AI to virtually unfurl one of the Herculaneum scrolls – the ancient documents buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Known as PHerc. 172, this ...

But AFP traced the image back to Spanish news agency EFE's database, where it was identified as being taken on Mount Etna in 2004. Greek experts have said the Santorini tremors were not linked to ...

A charred scroll has been digitally deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.