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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

Two more people in the US have tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, highlighting the need for expanded influenza ...

A mathematical proof shows that some quantum states can resist nature’s tendency to disorder – but only under very specific ...