Science

Physicists find that causal loops, where two events separated in time influence each other in paradoxical ways, are allowed in...

About 40% of the world’s civilian-owned firearms are in the United States, a country that has had some 1.4 million...

Snapping shrimps seem immune to the shock waves their claws produce to kill or stun other animals – and it...

Much of this work has been done on the hardy arabidopsis—“the lab rat of plants,” as He puts it. There...

As the future generations commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe’s job is to help guide the government's decisions for the benefit...

At 18 months old, Aurea Yenmai Smigrodzki is inquisitive like any other toddler. She likes peanut butter, the beach, and...

Disposable gowns designed to deflect the splatter of bodily fluids, used in thousands of U.S. hospitals, have underperformed in recent...

This photograph of Comet Leonard is one of the dazzling cosmic images shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year...

Around 2030, the Landsat program will launch its next satellite, called Landsat Next. It will bravely break from the numerical...

For millennia, many animals and plants have coped with occasional climate changes by moving into new areas. But humans’ relatively...

The EuroFusion consortium hopes its DEMOnstration Power Plant will take fusion power from the lab to commercial electricity supply by...

Which inner voice do you have? The "faithful friend", the "proud rival", the "ambivalent parent" or the "helpless child"? Getting...

DeepMind researchers have trained an AI system to find a popular policy for distributing public funds in an online game...

Pioneering reparations programmes meant to address decades of US housing discrimination against Black homebuyers could get a boost from AI...

The promise of a new diet that can add as much as a decade to your life is certainly tempting...

Electrodes implanted in the brain were known to release impulses that may "normalise" overactive connections within a specific circuit of...