Four independent research teams report big advances in devices built with the underestimated quantum bits, including lower ...

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

Mosquito-borne diseases are breaking records as climate change and other human influences allow the insects to expand their ...

Discovery of almost 400 structures may help to redefine the true scale of the Aquiry civilization — plus, tiny fossils of the earliest fossil squid ancestor.

Scientist have developed a host of AI ‘protein language models’ that can create proteins from scratch. But Raygun can modify ...

Ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.

Previous sleep research has focused mostly on the brain circuitry that snaps people awake in seconds or on how sleep debt ...

Mathematicians Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang have won the 2026 Fields Medal — one of the most coveted ...

Scientists have exploited a peculiar CRISPR enzyme so that it fights cancer by shredding the DNA in cancer cells, causing ...

The national synchrotron source, a laser facility and a particle accelerator are under threat of closure unless cash is found ...

Scientists are getting closer to understanding the wasting and fatigue that often accompanies cancer. Treatments could be on ...

In a hangar in Broomfield, Colorado, a Gulfstream V jet plane is getting last-minute checks before it heads out on a daring mission. The aeroplane is part of a NASA campaign that will, for the first ...