On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our ...

The Loki actor is the unlikely host for a three-episode docu-series about the Roman city. It's occasionally a little silly, ...

Complex systems, be they living beings or fundamental particles, need to have enough structure to hang together along with ...

For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved.

Antimatter has finally hit the road. Around 100 antiprotons took a 20-minute trip on the back of a lorry around the CERN particle physics laboratory’s campus near Geneva, Switzerland. This ...

Low cloud cover has been expanding since 1979, reflecting more sunlight into space, but scientists expect that trend to ...

Neither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely. Fresh hints that they exist are raising hopes that ...

Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a ...

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has ...

An ancient continent that was once sandwiched between India and Madagascar now lies scattered on the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The first clues to the continent’s existence came when some parts of ...

You may find you work better in a coffee shop than in your bedroom, but perhaps not for the reasons you’ve been led to believe. Instead of the noise and bustle stimulating your imagination, your ...

Coffee improves short-term memory and speeds up reaction times by acting on the brain’s prefrontal cortex, according to a new study. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to ...