Two research teams have independently created devices within which sound waves could be separated by frequency, creating the ...

Having surgery for a heart condition is thought to have triggered an immune response that put the patient into remission for ...

Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we’ve ever recorded. Studying the world’s oldest trees suggests we could be due one of these gargantuan events soon ...

Update: The spokespeople of the two major Higgs-hunting detectors have now confirmed that the particle discovered in July is a Higgs boson. “The preliminary results with the full 2012 dataset are ...

Bacteria-killing phage viruses souped up with DNA-destroying CRISPR appear to have helped clear up a very serious infection caused by antibiotic-resistant E. coli ...

The standard model of physics is one of the most successful scientific theories in existence, but do we need it all?

Two leg bones found on the seabed near Taiwan have been identified as Denisovans, and their size suggests these hominins ...

Our understanding of the internal structure of protons is largely based on classical physics, but data compiled from accelerator experiments has uncovered quantum behaviour that has never been seen be ...

Since the 2000s, our light exposure has changed drastically as we make our buildings more energy-efficient. Now, we’re ...

Keeping pets seems to be fairly recent behaviour in the timeline of human evolution. Columnist Michael Marshall turns to the ...

AT LEAST you can still get a bit of privacy in orbit. If the American spaceplane X-37B really was spying on China’s Tiangong-1 spacelab, it didn’t hang around to snoop on the new occupants. Operated ...

In an election, how can you make sure that everyone's votes are counted but also kept entirely secret? Quantum mechanics may ...