Mathematicians now have a formidable new tool for breaking open challenging problems, working out how best to use it is not ...

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

A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely ...

Converting the proof of Fermat's last theorem into code that computers can check was expected to take years – Anthropic's ...

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

Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America ...

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

Dive into new titles from major names including Carlo Rovelli, Maggie Aderin, Xand van Tulleken and Jim Al-Khalili, as well ...

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

Quantum theory says a vacuum isn’t truly empty, but proving it directly has remained out of reach. A new experiment using ...

If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it absorbs, ...

These images from photographer and soil ecologist Frank Ashwood's new book The World Beneath Our Feet zoom in on life for the ...