The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply ...

Watching a river flow via a virtual-reality headset while listening to classical music seems to quickly bring people's blood ...

Feverish babies in hospital are often assumed to have a serious bacterial infection and are treated with antibiotics. But a ...

The AI company Anthropic has announced that its Claude large language model has discovered a system reminiscent of CRISPR, ...

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat ...

It isn't easy to demonstrate that a new geometric shape can actually exist in the real world, but one researcher argues that ...

Grim warnings of the existential risk posed by AI are all over the news, but there is very little evidence to back them up ...

Stunning pictures of nebulae, stars, the moon and more took top prizes in this year's astrophotography competition, organised ...

Henley Spiers took the top award in the annual contest, with shots of guillemots, penguins and a protective tawny frogmouth ...

Higher temperatures around the world due to the record-breaking El Niño will lead to an estimated 450,000 extra deaths by ...

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

Detailed data on the Roman Empire’s entire road network is offering fresh insight into how Romans built their infrastructure ...