An evolution-inspired framework for how quantum fuzziness gives rise to our classical world shows that even imperfect ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

A woman's fertility can be partly gauged by levels of a hormone that reflects how many eggs she has. Now, scientists have ...

Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause temperatures to rebound ...

Zack Savitsky is a freelance science journalist based in Berlin who writes about the physics of the universe and our place ...

Columnist Helen Thomson investigates the neurological benefits of saunas, and how heat therapy can have anti-inflammatory ...

JWST has created a map of dark matter that is twice as good as anything we have had before, and it may help unravel some of the deepest mysteries of the universe ...

Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s climate, especially those ...

The LCLS-II X-ray laser is unprecedentedly bright, and will make it possible to record exactly what atoms and molecules do during photosynthesis and other chemical reactions ...

The company’s mega-constellation is having to perform a huge number of manoeuvres to prevent a collision in Earth orbit ...

Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one pesticide that could cause ...