Sci-fi author Ken MacLeod shares stories about his friend, the late Iain M. Banks, author of the genre-redefining Culture ...

Our cells follow 24-hour circadian rhythms that regulate our blood sugar levels and are heavily influenced by light exposure.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling and supercomputing to ...

Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of several parasites that can ...

A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and in doing so have solved the puzzle of its famous ‘planet’ ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been ...

Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other ...

Professional footballer players who became injured while on their period took longer to recover than when injuries occurred ...

The rings of Saturn are normally thought to be flat, but measurements by the Cassini spacecraft show that some of their ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed ...

White-sided dolphins seem to help killer whales "scout" and catch Chinook salmon near Vancouver Island, then eat the ...

People are often diagnosed with multiple neurodivergencies and mental health conditions, but the biggest genetic analysis so ...