Science

Who were the Anglo-Saxons? Biological anthropologist Alice Roberts's informed, sophisticated new take digs deep to re-examine their true origins Humans...

Some scientists insist that the cause of all things exists at the most fundamental level, even in systems as complex...

Silicon Valley media entrepreneurs might talk about free speech, but it is a fallacy that we should be able to...

Your kitchen sponge is teeming with microbes. But repeated contact with food waste is not the only reason; a sponge’s...

Research supports what Darwin said in 1872 – dogs express emotions in a way recognisable to humans. Governments must do...

While the current monkeypox outbreak will be the first time many have heard of the disease, the virus is thought...

Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 lowers the risk of long COVID after infection by only about 15%, according to a study of...

Flashes of gamma radiation that seem to be produced by lightning storms have puzzled researchers for some time, but now...

U.S. carbon dioxide emissions rose by 4 percent in the first quarter, as American drivers hit the road in record...

Imagen, from Google, is the latest example of an AI seemingly able to produce high-quality images from a text prompt...

NONFICTION The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time: The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change by Markus Rex, translated...

A nanoparticle coat helps an immunotherapy drug cross the blood-brain barrier in mice so it can target brain tumours more...

Suppose this parallel plate capacitor is connected to a 9-volt battery. A volt is a measure of the electric potential...

Two years and counting into the COVID pandemic, we’ve all seen plenty of misinformation and junk science, whether online, on...

The ancient town of Pompeii was buried under hot volcanic ash in AD 79, but DNA still survives in the...

All remaining U.S. states with COVID-related public mask requirements have recently lifted them, and in mid-April, a district judge in...