Mathematicians now have a formidable new tool for breaking open challenging problems, working out how best to use it is not ...

The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process ...

A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely ...

Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America ...

The El Niño phase now under way will be the most damaging on record for the Amazon, scientists warn, raising the risk of ...

Dive into new titles from major names including Carlo Rovelli, Maggie Aderin, Xand van Tulleken and Jim Al-Khalili, as well ...

AI companies are making new mathematical discoveries at a rapid pace but not sticking around to help unpick the new proofs.

Quantum theory says a vacuum isn’t truly empty, but proving it directly has remained out of reach. A new experiment using ...

If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it absorbs, ...

Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, and ...

Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise. By 2100, such feedback loops will increase warming by 20 to ...

Over the past 20 years, scientists have acquired a much fuller understanding of the biological pathways of ageing and are ...