Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

Google is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units – a type of computer chip specially designed for AI – to ...

Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

Iain M Banks published his debut novel The Wasp Factory in 1984. He went on to write 28 more novels, with his literary ...

Bethany Jacobs' debut science fiction novel, These Burning Stars, won the Philip K. Dick Award. Her books also include On ...

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment ...

Dental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes to the oral microbiome at this time could be at least partly to blame ...

Dementia is the deterioration of brain functioning beyond that of normal ageing. There are multiple types, the most common being Alzheimer’s disease. Factors such as smoking, being overweight, heavy ...