A lab accident is said to have led to the death of a woman from pneumonic plague in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, leading to ...

The glymphatic system is the brain's recently discovered network for flushing out toxins. Now, we're uncovering surprising ...

From wildfires to landslides to coral bleaching, past trends suggest what extreme weather the record El Niño will bring – but ...

Genetic analysis of hundreds of tiny bone fragments found in the same cave that yielded the first fossil remains of the ...

The 2026 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for the ...

Creating rotationally symmetrical Venn diagrams of increasing size is a longstanding mathematical challenge - now an amateur ...

Mathematicians warn that pre-print service arXiv is so flooded with AI slop papers that it has become virtually unusable – ...

The list of age-related conditions we can avoid by limiting sugar is shockingly long. But does that mean we should stop our ...

A daily omega-3 supplement seems to slow biological ageing in older people, particularly if combined with vitamin D and exercise. We already knew that omega-3s – “good” fats found in seeds, nuts and ...

Pressing down on shin bones improved cognitive and motor symptoms in mice and pigs with traumatic brain injuries ...

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times ...

Most of the drones being used by Russia in the war with Ukraine are controlled by cables several tens of kilometres long. A ...