When dogs hear their owners speak, they are listening for consonants in words rather than vowels, a new study suggests, apparently mimicking a similar human bias that is found across many languages.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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