The world hasn't experienced an El Niño this strong since the 1870s, when it sparked a terrible global famine. Are we better ...

Our memories may persist even when half of the brain connections that store them are wiped out, according to a study in dormant mice. The “remarkable” discovery tells us more about how memory works ...

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

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

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

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

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, is our most potent weight-loss drug, but it can be made even more effective when ...

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

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

Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying ...

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 ...

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