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

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

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

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 ...

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

If you believe Albert Einstein – and he has never been wrong about gravity after many experiments – gravity isn’t a “thing” ...

Life itself depends on a core group of about a dozen elements – such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen – along with ...

Readers share which paw their pets preferred ...

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