A new twist on nuclear fusion ignition emitted X-rays that are as bright as some stars, which could enable other extreme ...

Don’t read The Ambidextrous Universe unless you are serious about maths and physics, because Martin Gardner is very happy to make his readers work – to enthralling effect, says Jacklin Kwan ...

Optical illusions thought to have influenced the design of the Parthenon in ancient Greece are not backed up by evidence or ...

Detailed data on the Roman Empire’s entire road network is offering fresh insight into how Romans built their infrastructure ...

Scientists can now get more accurate safety data by testing drugs on organ-on-a-chip devices and organoids, meaning that ...

Determining how useful different quantum computers are has been a long running challenge – now researchers appear to have the ...

Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for fishing for ants or algae ...

Fewer people are reading for pleasure, but getting lost in a good book has repeatedly been linked to substantial cognitive ...

AI experts put the chance of models rising up and killing us all at greater than 10 per cent – but are the risks real? And ...

Previous brain implants have enabled people with paralysis to either speak or move, but a new, larger one enabled them to do ...

Reducing fishing quotas, rescuing endangered species from the water and testing geoengineering could help soften ocean heat ...

Crushing water to pressures in the millions of atmospheres has revealed two strange types of ice, which may form deep inside ...