A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and reveal the ultimate fuzziness of time ...

Government departments and other public bodies in the UK must consider requests to release information about AI-produced content, regulators have confirmed. The move follows a successful request by ...

There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but researchers may have finally come up with one: a bright purple jet of microbe-killing plasma ...

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Vaccine misinformation, nurse and doctor shortages and crowded living arrangements may be behind soaring rates of diphtheria ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health ...

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed ...

Tests with rodents suggest an mRNA vaccine in development offers protection against three strains of Ebola virus, including the one behind the current crisis ...

Storing carbon dioxide in rocks while producing hydrogen from them - and perhaps even geothermal power too - could be a ...

Colossal Biosciences, the company that says it resurrected the dire wolf, now says it has developed artificial eggshells so ...