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Robert Downey Jr’s bizarre Welsh accent in the new Dr Dolittle film has been ridiculed. But how important is it for actors to get their intonation on point, asks Rachael Sigee.

During 1987 and 1988, Indian state TV broadcast a series that adapted the epic Hindu poem, the Ramayana. Some believe this set the path for a national Hindu consciousness.

Survival, community and love are explored in these plausible, prescient books. Jane Ciabattari on the novels that tell us ‘we’ve been through this before and we’ve survived’.

Thousands of van-driving nomads were living the dream - until the coronavirus pandemic brought them to a sudden halt.

Survey suggests British motorists are ready to change their behaviour to protect the environment.

From political upheavals to anxieties about sex, technology and women, it turns out conspiracy theories can tell us a lot about what’s going on in our societies – and how to fix them.

What are the biggest unsolved puzzles in our cosmic neighbourhood?

The next generation of telescopes could reveal the presence of oceans on planets beyond our Solar System.

The US government has formally declared it has no knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrial life, in response to petitions submitted to the White House.

Researchers report compelling evidence of creating a theoretical particle that has been the subject of a 75-year search for proof.

Europe will build a space telescope to investigate this year's Nobel-winning research on "dark energy". But how will the US react to Europe's attempt to take a lead in this important field?

Researchers have developed a simple geometrical method to add weight to the idea that ours is a flat, dark-energy-rich Universe.

Researchers propose that mysterious "filaments" of radio waves near the Milky Way galaxy's centre could be evidence of the existence of dark matter.

Audiobooks are having a moment. As they soar in popularity, they are becoming increasingly creative – is the book you listen to now an artform in its own right, asks Clare Thorp.

An unpopular theory that modifies gravity appears to outperform the theory that invokes dark matter, in studies of galaxies with few stars and lots of gas.

The most detailed image of the Universe's most extreme environments is revealed as part of a meeting of Fermi space telescope scientists.

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are getting set to recreate the Big Bang on a miniature scale.

A meteorite found in Antarctica could lend weight to the argument that life on Earth might have been kick-started from space.

Astronomers have made the most accurate measurement yet of the mass of a mysterious neutrino or "ghost particle".

A technique using neutrons can probe Newton's theory of gravity at the microscopic level, and may give hints of exotic physics, researchers say.

Scientists have detected carbon buckyballs - the largest molecules ever seen in space - in a cloud of cosmic dust surrounding a distant star.

A series of photographs, allegedly from a woman quitting her post over her boss, have been exposed as an elaborate internet hoax.

The owner of a cat which has had its fur dyed pink and was then thrown over a garden fence in Swindon is being sought by the RSPCA.