A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that life suddenly diversified during the Cambrian explosion ...

Recognising rhythmic patterns was thought to require a big brain, but a series of experiments has shown that buff-tailed ...

A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang ...

Improved hardware can send ten times as much data through existing fibre-optic cables, potentially providing a way to ...

Nelson Dellis credits techniques like the method of loci for his extraordinary memory. Now, brain scans have revealed the ...

What happens if you stop banning drugs? New Zealand is about to find out – and the rest of the world is watching Less liver ...

Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the ...

If you are unlucky enough to have been bitten by a snake, you are unlikely to want to repeat the experience. Not so for Tim ...

The president's proposed budget is under fire for massive cuts to US science while diverting billions of dollars to defence and the Mexico border wall ...

As Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth talk about wanting to make Star Trek real, long-time fan Chanda Prescod-Weinstein says they've misconstrued the heart of the story ...

Tim Friede is director of herpetology at Centivax, a biotechnology company based in California. He devoted more than 15 years ...