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

Fewer people are reading for pleasure, but getting lost in a good book has repeatedly been linked to substantial cognitive ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Elon Musk firm’s Colossus 2 data centre – the largest in the US – has been spewing out nitrogen oxide emissions from trailer-mounted gas turbines, an analysis suggests ...

Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America ...

Mathematicians now have a formidable new tool for breaking open challenging problems, working out how best to use it is not ...