By tracing the origins of an unusual, short-lived particle, researchers have gathered some of the strongest evidence yet that ...

James Watson’s The Double Helix is probably one of the greatest science books of all time – but Michael Le Page finds he ...

Our solar system’s rocky planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun, rather than a single disc The ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus is increasingly ...

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission have captured extraordinary views of the moon, including close-ups of the far side and ...

Two of the forefathers of quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, had a famous argument over whether light is a wave ...

Amplifying the brain's waste disposal system seems to clear a substance that drives migraines, relieving some of the pain ...

Anaerobic digesters converting manure to biogas reduce methane emissions from livestock, but incentives for them have encouraged factory farms to get bigger ...

Using lasers instead of electrodes to vibrate the hairs in the inner ears could lead to less damaging cochlear implants ...