When you hear the term natural selection, you likely think of change, but new research suggests the mechanism can also
Researchers taking part in the Human Brain Project have identified a mathematical rule that governs the distribution of neurons in
Dick Coffee attended 781 consecutive University of Alabama football games. Meg Roh surfed through illness, storms and nightfall to maintain
In 1997, a deep belch echoed through the belly of Earth’s oceans. The super low-frequency sound came out like a
In a feat of spectacular ingenuity, scientists have for the first time managed to capture on film a microscopic shock
Jellyfish don’t seem to have a lot going on. They’re gelatinous blobs that have neither brains, nor hearts, nor blood,
I once restored a 1950s timepiece for a customer who waxed lyrical about the intricacies of my work – all
The early Universe was a wild time. In the first 2 billion years following the Big Bang 13.8 billion years
Locals watched in awe as a fireball exploded and hundreds of meteorite fragments rained down on the city of Tatahouine,
Information doesn’t make its way around our brains in the same way as it does in the brains of other
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. Now an AI neural
Kids who spend five minutes practicing mindfulness before opening a book have a higher chance of improving their reading skills.
When a large earthquake shook Alaska’s Aleutian Islands in 2014, scientists with the US government hurried to assess the damage
Stop with the salt: adding a dash of water to coffee beans before grinding them could be the secret to
Psychologists call it the dark triad: an intersection of three of the most malevolent tendencies of human nature – psychopathy,
Imagine being able to tell an AI details about your life – your job, your eating habits, that time you
Arctic observers were granted a rare spectacle when rare rainbow-colored clouds streaked the skies ahead of the holiday season. A
A lab technician-turned-scientific photographer has created a camera that allows us to peer inside the black box of a centrifuge
Japan’s SLIM space probe entered the Moon‘s orbit on Monday in a major step towards the country’s first successful lunar
“Stop the world, I want to get off.” This exasperated phrase has been around since the 1950s, used in classic
Teleportation of quantum states promises to play a central role in securing the information superhighway of tomorrow. In spite of
A world-first, non-invasive AI system can turn silent thoughts into text while only requiring users to wear a snug-fitting cap.
For the first time, physicists have succeeded in creating a strange, fragile kind of structure in a laboratory known as
We are biodiversity researchers – an ecologist, a mathematician and a taxonomist – who were locked down together during the
In a typical battery, charged ions zip one way through a sea of other particles as the battery recharges, before
Archaeologists have linked rising and lowering sea levels in the Atlantic Ocean to the ebbs and flows of ancient civilizations
In the savannahs and rainforests of tropical Africa, an ape friend once made is a friend for life. A study
A new ‘space race’ is heating up between the US and China in space exploration, and Lagrange points are emerging
For the first time, scientists have sequenced the genome of a mysterious species of giant bacterium that can be seen
Every now and again, a reminder comes along that our planet really is unusual in so many fabulous ways. Those
Java Stingarees are the first marine fish to be declared extinct as a result of human activity. This troubling news
The way your pupils react to light exercise could reveal whether you’re getting one of the key benefits of movement
What makes one person more creative than another? Creativity is hard to define and perhaps even more difficult to measure,
A frozen highway may have given ancient travelers a clear path from Siberia into the New World more than 10,000
You’ve heard of hot Jupiters. You’ve heard of mini-Neptunes. You’ve heard of super-Earths. But have you heard of Eyeball Planets?
Insects numbers have declined so much that plants are now taking reproduction matters into their own hands (or petals). They’re
Most of the light streaming through our Universe is invisible to human eyes. The spectrum ranges from long radio waves
Cats have a reputation for being aloof (some may even say lazy) – but our new research has found they
Ocean bays that pinch West Antarctica are home to two distinct populations of Turquet’s octopus (Pareledone turqueti). The shared secrets
For much of the 65,000 years of Australia’s human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western
While it has been a favorite disaster movie theme, nuking an incoming asteroid in the real world has been touted
Strange variations across different measurements of the planet’s surface have revealed periodic oscillations deep in Earth’s heart. By studying minute
Animals cover astonishing distances when they are looking for food. While caribou, reindeer and wolves clock up impressive mileage on
A Miocene-era shift from dense forests to open plains may have caused ancient hominids to move from vowel-based to consonant-based
China’s third test mission of a reusable, robotic spacecraft continues to invite speculation by casting into orbit half a dozen
The ferocious Scythians, according to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, were a terrifying and bloodthirsty lot. With an alacrity and
A shark sheds up to 40,000 teeth in its lifetime – and megalodon, the greatest predator of them all, was
Is your dog bothered by something but you can’t work out what? Do you wish they could tell you? There’s
