It is thought that humans can only maintain relationships with around 150 people, a figure known as Dunbar's number, but it ...

Gears just a few micrometres wide can be carved from silicon using a beam of electrons, enabling tiny robots or machines that ...

Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...

The 2024 Nobel prize in physics has gone to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries that enabled machine learning ...

Key climate indicators from greenhouse gas levels to ice loss have reached record levels this year in what researchers call a “critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis” ...

A mathematical proof shows that some quantum states can resist nature’s tendency to disorder – but only under very specific ...

The United States has ramped up influenza surveillance amid an ongoing outbreak of the bird flu virus H5N1 in dairy cattle.

While the 20th century saw rapid rises in average life expectancy at birth, more recent years have seen a slowdown, ...

Daniele Oriti’s pursuit of a theory of quantum gravity has led him to the startling conclusion that the laws of nature don’t ...

Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on disocvering microRNA and ...

Motion sensors in smartphones can be turned into makeshift microphones to eavesdrop on conversations, outsmarting security ...

Bacteria grown from carbon compounds in asteroids could be turned into a kind of nutritionally balanced milkshake ...