David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for research on predicting ...

Hurricanes have kept forecasters guessing this year, but with the arrival of intense storms like Helene and Milton it is ...

More than 600 types of viruses that infect bacteria have been found living on toothbrushes and showerheads – and many of them ...

Scientists from Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, in the UK have worked with a team of Brazilian paramotorists in the Peruvian ...

Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...

An army of tadpoles and a stretching lynx are just some of the incredible photos winning accolades at the annual competition ...

Brain scans of people tasting squirts of hot sauce have revealed how positive and negative expectations can influence brain ...

It is thought that humans can only maintain relationships with around 150 people, a figure known as Dunbar's number, but it ...

Key climate indicators from greenhouse gas levels to ice loss have reached record levels this year in what researchers call a “critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis” ...

While the 20th century saw rapid rises in average life expectancy at birth, more recent years have seen a slowdown, ...

Gears just a few micrometres wide can be carved from silicon using a beam of electrons, enabling tiny robots or machines that ...

The 2024 Nobel prize in physics has gone to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries that enabled machine learning ...