A cryptocurrency that aims to avoid the disastrous energy consumption of bitcoin is actually using 18 times more energy than ...

Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probably because of changes in ...

Researchers in South Korea say they have made a major advance by turning on genes with an electromagnetic signal, but critics ...

Craig Venter has died aged 79. He was at the forefront of sequencing the human genome and of synthetic biology, but divided ...

A technique inspired by the film Interstellar suggests a new way of communicating backwards in time, but it could help ...

An ambitious study has explored how the oral microbiome may affect our metabolic health, raising hopes that conditions like ...

Europe, the fastest-warming continent, saw unprecedented wildfires and heatwaves in 2025, including a three-week hot spell ...

Feedback has learned that, according to reports, Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff.

A wave of dinosaur discoveries over the past decade has completely reshaped our understanding of these long-extinct animals.

An advanced version of the famous double-slit experiment has directly measured a single photon in two places at once – or at least, that’s the claim made by a team of physicists who say these results ...

Reports suggest that Apple is using defective chips originally destined for high-end devices to create its latest affordable ...

A genomic study may have revealed how Greenland sharks live for centuries and yet rarely get cancer. These sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) are slow-moving dwellers of the deep that can reach more ...