A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, ...

Intermittent fasting appears to be no better than doing nothing when it comes to helping people who are overweight or have obesity lose weight ...

The psychedelic DMT has been linked to improved mental health outcomes before, but now, scientists have shown it reduces depression symptoms more than a placebo when given alongside therapeutic suppor ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...

We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now researchers have found it is possible to pull off this trick in the strange realm of quantum mechanics ...

A gene therapy that patients breathe in has been found to shrink lung tumours by inserting immune-boosting genes into ...

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly ...

The activity of certain neurons may influence our endurance for exercise, and these could be targeted to help us run faster ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

Biologists have long thought that speaking to nature’s economic value would persuade boardrooms it was worth saving. It ...