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 ...

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

A man with a very serious infection caused by antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli has improved after being given bacteria-killing phage viruses armed with DNA-destroying CRISPR systems. The ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Since my 20s, my breasts have had so much going on in them that they feel like bags of small toys like marbles, toy soldiers, and Hot Wheels. My doctors say it’s natural, normal, for me. Just the ...

A rocket launched last year is thought to have smashed into the lunar surface this morning, creating the moon's newest crater ...