Feverish babies in hospital are often assumed to have a serious bacterial infection and are treated with antibiotics. But a ...

Watching a river flow via a virtual-reality headset while listening to classical music seems to quickly bring people's blood ...

The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply ...

The AI company Anthropic has announced that its Claude large language model has discovered a system reminiscent of CRISPR, ...

It isn't easy to demonstrate that a new geometric shape can actually exist in the real world, but one researcher argues that ...

Detailed data on the Roman Empire’s entire road network is offering fresh insight into how Romans built their infrastructure ...

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat ...

Grim warnings of the existential risk posed by AI are all over the news, but there is very little evidence to back them up ...

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

Higher temperatures around the world due to the record-breaking El Niño will lead to an estimated 450,000 extra deaths by ...

Uncertainty about when or even if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a vital ocean current, might collapse has ...

Texts from imperial China suggest that some crimes were punishable with unusual amputations and a 700-year-old skeleton ...