Once considered an oddity of quantum physics, time crystals could be a good building block for accurate clocks and sensors, ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Electric vehicle batteries are typically retired once they reach about 80 per cent of their original capacity, but they could ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

Setting a limit for global warming didn't succeed in galvanising climate action quickly enough – now we should focus on making the annual average temperature rise clear for all to see, says Bill McGui ...

Scientists have captured remarkable footage of the young of a mouse-sized marsupial, called a fat-tailed dunnart, making their way to their mother’s pouch soon after being born ...

The lines worn into an engraved limestone object from the Netherlands are consistent with the idea that it was a Roman game ...

The first people to reach the Kitsissut Islands off the north-west coast of Greenland were Indigenous peoples, who crossed ...

One type of friction can waste energy even when two perfectly smooth surfaces move against each other, but researchers are ...

People classed as “overweight” according to BMI can be perfectly healthy. But there are better measures of fat, and physicians are finally using them ...

Pesticides are becoming more toxic and just about every country is using more of them year after year, despite a UN target to ...

A review of the evidence suggests that statins are no more likely than a placebo to cause most of the side effects listed on ...