A lab accident is said to have led to the death of a woman from pneumonic plague in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, leading to ...

Genetic analysis of hundreds of tiny bone fragments found in the same cave that yielded the first fossil remains of the ...

The 2026 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for the ...

From wildfires to landslides to coral bleaching, past trends suggest what extreme weather the record El Niño will bring – but ...

Mathematicians warn that pre-print service arXiv is so flooded with AI slop papers that it has become virtually unusable – ...

The list of age-related conditions we can avoid by limiting sugar is shockingly long. But does that mean we should stop our ...

The glymphatic system is the brain's recently discovered network for flushing out toxins. Now, we're uncovering surprising ...

Creating rotationally symmetrical Venn diagrams of increasing size is a longstanding mathematical challenge - now an amateur ...

Pressing down on shin bones improved cognitive and motor symptoms in mice and pigs with traumatic brain injuries ...

At Grotte Mandrin in France, a Neanderthal discovery has challenged everything we know about our human relatives. We travelled to the cave to meet palaeoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak, who discovered ...

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, is our most potent weight-loss drug, but it can be made even more effective when ...

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times ...