Our memories may persist even when half of the brain connections that store them are wiped out, according to a study in dormant mice. The “remarkable” discovery tells us more about how memory works ...

Atherosclerosis, the build-up of fatty plaque in arteries, usually affects people older than 50, but a "meaningful" ...

Rocks in the asteroid belt rotating at ultra-fast speeds suggest our understanding of asteroid structure might be wrong ...

Tattoos could be radically reimagined following the development of inks that can be turned on and off by exposing them to ...

A new species of giant waterlily identified with the help of social media and satellite photos is just one of three ...

When OpenAI announced its surprise solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, it produced one proof for humans and one for ...

AI has been growing ever more capable in mathematics and OpenAI has now released hundreds of papers at the same time – to the ...

US President Donald Trump has declared that artificial intelligence should now be called “super intelligence”. Columnist ...

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

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, is our most potent weight-loss drug, but it can be made even more effective when ...

OpenAI has released hundreds of papers claiming to make progress on the biggest open problems in mathematics – here are some ...

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