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

One of the trickiest problems in mathematics has now fallen to AI after just days of work. The groundbreaking result was ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Over the past 20 years, scientists have acquired a much fuller understanding of the biological pathways of ageing and are ...