Fewer people are reading for pleasure, but getting lost in a good book has repeatedly been linked to substantial cognitive ...

Previous brain implants have enabled people with paralysis to either speak or move, but a new, larger one enabled them to do ...

Ukraine is racing to design faster, more capable interceptor drones to tackle Russia's new generation of jet-powered Shahed ...

Crushing water to pressures in the millions of atmospheres has revealed two strange types of ice, which may form deep inside ...

AI experts put the chance of models rising up and killing us all at greater than 10 per cent – but are the risks real? And ...

A second dimension of time has long seemed wholly incompatible with reality. But fresh insights involving black holes and ...

Reducing fishing quotas, rescuing endangered species from the water and testing geoengineering could help soften ocean heat ...

The sun and moon are positioned just right for us to see total solar eclipses, and the make-up of the universe is just right ...

El Niño is a natural climate phase that happens when easterly trade winds weaken, allowing the warm water they had piled up ...

The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process ...

Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, and ...

The El Niño phase now under way will be the most damaging on record for the Amazon, scientists warn, raising the risk of ...