The most exciting popular science reads this month explore everything from symbiosis to hormones, while Alice Roberts takes ...

Researchers studying a 5300-year-old mummified man have identified bacteria that lived in his gut when he was alive, as well ...

An exploration of how biological cooperation underpins all life - and why we’ve overlooked its power until now - makes ...

Computer simulations have uncovered a new manganese compound that could exist deep in Earth’s mantle and may be connected to ...

From dementia to heart attacks, hearing loss has been linked to a wide range of effects across the body, and the condition is ...

Our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum goes back to Isaac Newton, but astronomers are still finding new ways to ...

Mathematicians are stunned at the progress AI is making in solving advanced problems, leaving some questioning whether there ...

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the ...

There is plenty of intriguing sci-fi on offer this month, whether it’s solar-powered cities from Adrian Tchaikovsky or a ...

Turmeric is heralded for its anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties, but columnist Alice Klein finds that the evidence ...

The highest-energy sunlight is too bright. Astronomers have detected gamma rays coming from the sun that are more energetic than any we have seen before, and there are more of them than any of our ...

Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence: could a computer convince a human it was human? We have begun ...