Fuelled by an unprecedented heatwave, the powerful fires scorching France and Spain are breaking records or are on the verge of doing so — and there are still months to go in the fire season. “We have ...

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

Four independent research teams report big advances in devices built with the underestimated quantum bits, including lower ...

Mosquito-borne diseases are breaking records as climate change and other human influences allow the insects to expand their ...

Previous sleep research has focused mostly on the brain circuitry that snaps people awake in seconds or on how sleep debt ...

Scientist have developed a host of AI ‘protein language models’ that can create proteins from scratch. But Raygun can modify ...

Mathematicians Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang have won the 2026 Fields Medal — one of the most coveted ...

Ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.

Discovery of almost 400 structures may help to redefine the true scale of the Aquiry civilization — plus, tiny fossils of the earliest fossil squid ancestor.

Scientists are getting closer to understanding the wasting and fatigue that often accompanies cancer. Treatments could be on ...

Scientists have exploited a peculiar CRISPR enzyme so that it fights cancer by shredding the DNA in cancer cells, causing ...

Chief US science adviser calls for a shakeup in funding while handing out grants to accelerate research with AI.