Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying ...

A monster El Niño is brewing in the Pacific Ocean – but there may be ways we can stop the worst impacts from occurring ...

Genetic analysis of hundreds of tiny bone fragments found in the same cave that yielded the first fossil remains of the ...

The 2026 Nobel prize in physics has been won by Francis Halzen for his work on neutrinos,  which act like 'ghostly messengers ...

A lab accident is said to have led to the death of a woman from pneumonic plague in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, leading to ...

The 2026 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for the ...

The glymphatic system is the brain's recently discovered network for flushing out toxins. Now, we're uncovering surprising ...

From wildfires to landslides to coral bleaching, past trends suggest what extreme weather the record El Niño will bring – but ...

The list of age-related conditions we can avoid by limiting sugar is shockingly long. But does that mean we should stop our ...

Mathematicians warn that pre-print service arXiv is so flooded with AI slop papers that it has become virtually unusable – ...

From Becky Chambers to Audrey Niffenegger, there are some heavy hitters with new sci-fi novels out this month – and a hefty ...

Every few years, a disturbance in the Pacific Ocean is amplified by feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere, unleashing heat ...