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

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

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

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

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 ...