Fabric laced with silver nanowires traps heat and could even be warmed up like an electric blanket ...

US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities have caused black rain to fall on Tehran, but the black smoke filling the air is likely ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...

Taking a multivitamin every day might slightly slow the rate of ageing, but the extent to which this is relevant to our health is unclear ...

We’re learning that frailty can quietly arrive decades before old age, with some people in their 30s or 40s unknowingly in a pre-frail state. There are surprising ways to stay strong – and it’s not al ...

Some Samoyeds adjust the pitch of their howls depending on the music being played, showing a form of vocal ability they might ...

A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two legs before any known African hominin, but the evidence is far from conclusive ...

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...

It's been 10 years since Go champion Lee Sedol lost to DeepMind's AlphaGo. Has the technology lived up to its potential?

NASA’s DART mission slammed into the small asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the impact slowed its orbit around the larger Didymos – and also the pair’s path around the sun ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...