If the headlines are to be believed, kids these days are getting dumber. Some of the data – which indicate that Gen Z individuals are performing worse than their parent ...

Ever since ChatGPT’s debut in 2023, concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) potentially wiping out humanity have dominated headlines. New research from Georgia Tech suggests that those ...

For scientists who study the Southern Ocean, a long-standing silver lining in the gloomy forecast of climate change has been ...

Scientists think Venus once had oceans, water, and a climate that may have resembled early Earth. But something pushed the ...

PFAS or ‘forever chemicals’ have wide-ranging toxic effects. Now, researchers have found that two non-legacy PFAS, namely perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) and perfluorooctanesulfonamide (PFOS ...

A new study of carbon-based molecules in a Martian rock offers new hints about the possibility that the red planet once ...

Deep beneath the planet's surface at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, scientists are waiting for ...

After weeks of protecting her brood, a spider mother makes the ultimate sacrifice, offering her own body as food.

The Lunar Gateway is planned space station that will orbit the Moon. It is part of the Nasa‑led Artemis programme. Artemis aims to return humans to the Moon, establishing a sustainable presence the ...

For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilised egg as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a disordered tangle of ...

In the 19th century, Scottish surgeon James Braid revolutionized the field of hypnotism, transitioning the practice towards ...

Antarctica’s pale expanses of ice keep water locked up and reflect heat from the planet — but the climate crisis is putting these safeguards at increasing risk. Antarctica is warming much ...