In an election, how can you make sure that everyone's votes are counted but also kept entirely secret? Quantum mechanics may ...

Two research teams have independently created devices within which sound waves could be separated by frequency, creating the ...

Having surgery for a heart condition is thought to have triggered an immune response that put the patient into remission for ...

Our sun is capable of storms far bigger than we’ve ever recorded. Studying the world’s oldest trees suggests we could be due one of these gargantuan events soon ...

Our understanding of the internal structure of protons is largely based on classical physics, but data compiled from ...

Two leg bones found on the seabed near Taiwan have been identified as Denisovans, and their size suggests these hominins ...

Bacteria-killing phage viruses souped up with DNA-destroying CRISPR appear to have helped clear up a very serious infection caused by antibiotic-resistant E. coli ...

The standard model of physics is one of the most successful scientific theories in existence, but do we need it all?

Keeping pets seems to be fairly recent behaviour in the timeline of human evolution. Columnist Michael Marshall turns to the ...

Since the 2000s, our light exposure has changed drastically as we make our buildings more energy-efficient. Now, we’re ...

An out-of-control SpaceX rocket that crashed into the moon earlier this week did, in fact, leave an impact crater, according ...

This year has left mathematicians reeling as AI models are increasingly solving seemingly intractable maths problems. Terence ...