Science

But this is only one part of the process—what’s the point in developing new crops if they taste worse than...

On vital measures that predict later success in school and life, small children in the U.S. do worse than kids...

As of 26 May, the World Health Organization had received 650 reports of probable, sudden-onset hepatitis with no known cause...

For the first decades of Sohee Park’s career in schizophrenia research, she rarely stopped to consider what life was like...

Looking at COVID data in recent months, it may appear that a significant proportion of the people who have died...

She decided to study physics. It was, in a way, good timing—a Black American woman had just become the first...

If you make your own compost at home, you can participate in a citizen science project that investigates whether products...

For an industry that is all about creativity, fashion has been slow to innovate to deal with its dire environmental...

In the parkland of Penge, in south London, dinosaurs roam. The Art and Science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs by...

A computer simulation has revealed what happens in the microseconds after uncorking a bottle of champagne in full detail, uncovering...

Vortex rings, similar to smoke rings, have been observed in pulsing light before. Now, scientists have figured out how to...

Genome sequencing confirms that monkeypox cases outside Africa are all related and suggests the virus responsible may have been circulating...

A flying robot inspired by peregrine falcons offers a non-lethal method for scaring flocks of birds from crop fields Technology...

Chickens were domesticated later than we thought, but probably not for their meat. Instead, they may have acted as early...

To the average person, it must seem as if the field of artificial intelligence is making immense progress. According to...

A supercomputer called Frontier has been officially crowned as the world's first exascale computer – one capable of a billion...