For most objects, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. But if you are swimming upstream in a river of quantum light, the normal rules don’t apply. Physicists have demonstrated ...

Atherosclerosis, the build-up of fatty plaque in arteries, usually affects people older than 50, but a "meaningful" ...

In the 1600s, fishers in Peru saw that every few years around Christmastime, the waters there warmed, and they caught fewer anchovies. They called this “El Niño” – the boy – after the Christ child. In ...

Rocks in the asteroid belt rotating at ultra-fast speeds suggest our understanding of asteroid structure might be wrong ...

Tattoos could be radically reimagined following the development of inks that can be turned on and off by exposing them to ...

When OpenAI announced its surprise solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, it produced one proof for humans and one for ...

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

A new species of giant waterlily identified with the help of social media and satellite photos is just one of three ...

AI has been growing ever more capable in mathematics and OpenAI has now released hundreds of papers at the same time – to the ...

Russia says it is winding down precautionary measures taken after a lab worker at a plague research institute died. But what ...

US President Donald Trump has declared that artificial intelligence should now be called “super intelligence”. Columnist ...

OpenAI has released hundreds of papers claiming to make progress on the biggest open problems in mathematics – here are some ...