Cocaine and morphine hijacked neural responses in the brains of mice, which resulted in them consuming less food and water ...

The vertebrae of Vasuki indicus, a snake that lived 47 million years ago, suggest it could have been as long as 15 metres ...

Measurements of sulphur isotopes in Io’s atmosphere show that the moon may have been volcanically active for its entire ...

Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneath the hot desert ...

Cryptographers are scrambling to understand an algorithm that could undermine the mathematics behind next-generation ...

A mathematical model of a particle that remembers its past so that it never travels the same path twice produces stunningly ...

Feedback pores over new research that suggests "robot-human boxing" would reduce brain injuries by reducing the number of ...

Mounting evidence suggests our galaxy sits at the centre of an expanse of nothingness 2 billion light years wide. If so, we ...

A chair designed for gamers has been linked to reduced muscular stiffness and more wins for the players compared with a standard office chair. Joanne DiFrancisco-Donoghue at the New York Institute ...

In the foundations of a Maya temple, researchers found the charred bones of royal individuals – possibly evidence of a fiery ...

Cloud seeding almost certainly did not play a significant role in the flooding on the Arabian peninsula this week – but the ...

A computer intended to mimic the way the brain processes and stores data could potentially improve the efficiency and ...