Ace, an autonomous robot powered by AI, cutting-edge sensors and an extremely dexterous arm with eight joints, has played ...

Exercise has been touted as a tool for managing and treating long covid, but much of the evidence has neglected one of its ...

“This is Poppy,” says Howard Greenwood, proudly showing me his prize cow. In truth, though, “cow” is charming nuclear ...

Simon Singh's exploration of mathematical proof – in particular Pierre de Fermat's last theorem – remains an absolute ...

A final-stage trial has started of an mRNA vaccine against the bird flu strain infecting many animals – and occasionally ...

The ongoing conflict around the Strait of Hormuz has become a situation in game theory known as a war of attrition. The maths ...

Some seemingly simple sequences of multiplication and addition grow so quickly that they question the very foundations of ...

A planet-warming El Niño climate phase is now developing, and some models predict it could turn out to be the strongest on ...

Most of Titan’s surface is oddly flat and smooth, and it may be because it is coated by as much as a metre of fluffy organic material that snowed down from the icy moon’s thick atmosphere ...

People with severe sepsis could one day be treated by having their blood filtered to remove a crucial protein that seems to ...

Stress is linked to many of our biggest killers, but a growing body of research suggests that certain types can sharpen the ...

Experiment with nanodiamonds reveals that they are less rigid than other diamonds, adding to our understanding of how they ...