A trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hinting that such associative learning emerged long before multicellular nervous systems ...

Simulations of Australopithecus hominins’ anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have exerted tremendous pressure on their pelvic floors, putting them at risk of tearing ...

Jake Moore, Crime Enthusiast and Global Cybersecurity Advisor for ESET, brings a unique edge to the digital security realm. With a 14-year background in a UK police force specialising in Digital ...

Toys powered by AI show a worrying lack of emotional understanding. But we need to understand the risks and benefits of the technology so the industry can be regulated, not outright banned ...

Passwords occupy an odd place in our lives. They’re both a blessing – keeping our data and information safe from anyone intruding into our IT systems and accessing them – and a curse, in that they’re ...

Two popular quantum computing algorithms for problems in chemistry may have very limited use even as quantum hardware ...

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue ...

Fentanyl-related overdose deaths fell by nearly 30 per cent in the space of a year in the US, which could represent a ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like redrawing our family tree and transforming the hunt for Ancestor X ...

Star Nathan Fillion is stoking rumours that cult western-in-space television series Firefly could be rebooted. Emily H. Wilson realises she is being toyed with – but is still praying for its return ...

Teenagers are being bombarded with highly targeted commercial content on TikTok, despite an EU law that prohibits profiling ...