An eight-week course of self-administered laughter therapy helped a small number of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Converting the proof of Fermat's last theorem into code that computers can check was expected to take years – Anthropic's ...

Coral records from the Galapagos Islands indicate El Niños have been gathering strength over the past 40 years, in line with ...

El Niño is a natural climate phase that happens when easterly trade winds weaken, allowing the warm water they had piled up ...

Foreign states and technology firms are scrambling for data from the Ukraine war so they can train the next-generation of AI ...

Inhaling high levels of carbon dioxide intermittently for half an hour flushes proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease out of the brain, a small study has found. Exposure to the gas changes how blood ...

Decades after it has been posited as a foundational principle of quantum physics, Richard Feynman’s “path integral” has been ...

A pig kidney transplant worked for a record nine months. This enabled the recipient to stay off dialysis for longer while ...

The James Webb Space Telescope seems to have discovered more ancient black holes than theory had predicted, and now we have a ...

A decagon – a geometric polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles – has been found on Saturn, and nobody is quite sure how it got ...

Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of five kilometres, causing it to plummet around a ...

An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding new light on their species’ final days. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic ...