Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying ...

A monster El Niño is brewing in the Pacific Ocean – but there may be ways we can stop the worst impacts from occurring ...

A daily omega-3 supplement seems to slow biological ageing in older people, particularly if combined with vitamin D and exercise. We already knew that omega-3s – “good” fats found in seeds, nuts and ...

The Roman telescope is NASA’s newest space observatory. Every 10 months, it will get the equivalent of about 1000 years' worth of Hubble observations. Will it find the answers to our questions about ...

Wearing shoes seems to affect the density and volume of a spongy network within a bone in our ankles, which could affect the validity of previous research into the evolution of walking ...

The 2026 Nobel prize in physics has been won by Francis Halzen for his work on neutrinos,  which act like 'ghostly messengers ...

A lab accident is said to have led to the death of a woman from pneumonic plague in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, leading to ...

The 2026 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for the ...

From wildfires to landslides to coral bleaching, past trends suggest what extreme weather the record El Niño will bring – but ...

The list of age-related conditions we can avoid by limiting sugar is shockingly long. But does that mean we should stop our ...

Genetic analysis of hundreds of tiny bone fragments found in the same cave that yielded the first fossil remains of the ...

Mathematicians warn that pre-print service arXiv is so flooded with AI slop papers that it has become virtually unusable – ...