Quantum computers once seemed like fanciful machines of the future. Now, a DIY kit means that anyone with enough money and engineering skills can have one of their own. Barcelona-based quantum ...

A bold plan to pump seawater over the frozen Arctic Ocean could offer humanity a final chance to save the region’s vanishing sea ice. Field trials conducted this year in the Canadian Arctic to thicken ...

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...

We all feel emotions like anger and disgust from time to time, but they seem to cause stronger bodily sensations when they're ...

Vaccine misinformation, nurse and doctor shortages and crowded living arrangements may be behind soaring rates of diphtheria in remote Indigenous communities in Australia ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health ...

Work, illness, divorce: life is riddled with stressors out of your control. But research is revealing new ways to cope with ...

Some people experience vivid, incessant dreams that leave them feeling exhausted the next day, with researchers calling for this "epic dreaming" to be classed as a sleep disorder ...

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

Five different groups of predatory dinosaurs independently evolved disproportionately small arms, and it seems they did so because their heads became so large and powerful ...