The psychedelic drug LSD eased anxiety in a late-stage trial, paving the way for a probable approval in the US within the next two years ...

Crushing water to pressures in the millions of atmospheres has revealed two strange types of ice, which may form deep inside ...

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Ukraine is racing to design faster, more capable interceptor drones to tackle Russia's new generation of jet-powered Shahed ...

Previous brain implants have enabled people with paralysis to either speak or move, but a new, larger one enabled them to do ...

Reducing fishing quotas, rescuing endangered species from the water and testing geoengineering could help soften ocean heat ...

A second dimension of time has long seemed wholly incompatible with reality. But fresh insights involving black holes and ...

AI experts put the chance of models rising up and killing us all at greater than 10 per cent – but are the risks real? And ...

Graham Farmelo has written the first authorised biography of the famous physicist. He should be applauded for digging into various controversies – but could have gone further, says Jacob Aron ...

How do you get the science right in a sci-fi book? Columnist Annalee Newitz started by asking many kinds of researchers lots of very strange questions – and ended up in love with slime moulds ...

The most precise calculation yet of the electroweak force could help fix cracks in the standard model of particle physics ...

The sun and moon are positioned just right for us to see total solar eclipses, and the make-up of the universe is just right ...