From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re ...

The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could ...

Conventional computing devices will play a crucial role in turning quantum computers into tools with real-world application ...

Orforglipron, a GLP-1 drug taken as a pill, achieved positive results in people with obesity and type 2 diabetes, although it ...

Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the Cretaceous period may have been made by sea turtle ...

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...

The depths of the Arctic Ocean have warmed more than scientists expected. New research has placed the blame on warmer water ...

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...

Previous attempts at building a chemical computer have been too simple, too rigid or too hard to scale, but an approach based ...

The discovery that a toxin made by bacteria found in dirty water might help trigger ulcerative colitis could lead to new ...

A comprehensive UN report has found that cities and towns are home to 81 per cent of the world’s population, much more than ...