We have long had a seemingly simple question about neutrinos: how much do they weigh? Now, a gigantic experiment in China is ...

Northern bottlenose whales have stronger social bonds when they are starving or sick. This discovery was a surprise, because ...

A dinosaur that is new to science has features of both subfamilies of the tyrannosaur group, complicating our understanding ...

A row over when to publish crucial climate change assessments risks letting countries off the hook on emissions cuts ...

Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues ...

The Drake equation provides a way to guess how many aliens we might be able to communicate with, but it’s also a prime ...

Useful quantum computers will have to use many “logical qubits” as their computational building blocks, and researchers just ...

El Niño has already raised sea levels in part of the eastern Pacific by 40 centimetres and as it continues to strengthen ...

Error-proofing the most important operations performed on a quantum computer has so far required lots of resources, but a new ...

Hundreds of children have died of starvation and disease in a drought in Sudan caused by the record-breaking El Niño. The ...

Since 1972, officials have added 27 leap seconds to the universal clock, but in a meeting this week in France they have ...

Microplastics seem to generate potentially harmful molecules when they contact blood, which is thought to be due to their ...