A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

Sci-fi fans can enjoy a new Red Dwarf novel – the first for 30 years – this month, as well as sci-fi horror from Paul ...

Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

A form of fibre that boosts the release of the hunger-reducing hormone GLP-1 has been approved as safe by a European ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

When standard leukaemia treatments failed, 13-year-old Alyssa Tapley was told she had only weeks left – but then she was ...

Brain recordings from newborns reveal the first neural evidence that humans are born with an innate sense of numbers ...

The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatomy and evolutionary ...

The ocean floor is a vast source of potentially revolutionary scientific discovery – yet it remains largely inaccessible. For ...

Tiny 3D-printed diving suits allow cockroaches to walk underwater for up to 3 hours with no ill effects, which could enable a ...

The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little ...