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Men who played rugby union for Scotland are much more likely to develop dementia, Parkinson’s disease and motor neuron disease than the rest of the population

AI can use images from Google Street View and satellites to estimate building energy efficiency across entire cities. That could guide investments in reducing […]

A series of chemistry experiments suggest that a molecule that provides energy for all living cells, called ATP, could have been forged in geothermal vents in […]

Contagious itching may have evolved as a survival mechanism, such as by alerting other animals in the group that a parasite could be circulating

Firefighters working 24-hour shifts who only ate between 9am and 7pm saw improvements in heart health, blood sugar and blood pressure

A portable device called Lumen promises to enable your body to burn fats more efficiently, part of a new trend for "metabolism hacking" - which may even help […]

Satellite measurement should reveal just how much potent greenhouse gas was released by the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, but for now the estimates put it in […]

The covid-19 pandemic has been linked to a decline in the proportion of male babies being born, in line with previous findings that fewer boys are born after […]

A new study points to pyridine pollution as the most likely culprit behind the deaths of crustaceans, with dredging in the river Tees a possible source

The 2022 Nobel prize in physics has been jointly awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

Human-caused climate change is making droughts more severe – and could shift some regions of North America into permanent drought conditions

After NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the debris from the collision was blown into an enormous tail stretching behind the asteroid

The destruction caused by Hurricane Ian has left 600,000 Florida homes without power and many without clean water after the storm battered Florida, Cuba and […]

Playing a rhythm-based game helped people remember faces and boosted activity in the brain’s right superior parietal lobe, which hints at how learning music […]

Early humans evolved a faster fetal growth rate than other apes about a million years ago, suggesting it could have played a role in the evolution of our […]

Archaeologists once viewed ancient Nubia as separate from and inferior to Egypt. But research is now showing the Nubians had their own rich culture that […]

An algorithm usually used to design profitable airline routes can plan the optimal approach to adding cycle lanes while staying within council budgets

Geneticist Svante Pääbo has been awarded a Nobel prize for his work on evolutionary genetics

The outer solar system holds some chunks of ice and rock that orbit so far from the sun it’s hard to imagine how they got there – but an ancient rogue […]

A prototype computer built using a magnetic material called a skyrmion has been programmed to recognise handwritten digits. The approach could be particularly […]

Neurons in a part of the brain involved in memory may be 10 per cent larger in superagers than others aged 80 or over

Computer simulations found that a material made from three layers of rubber could absorb most frequencies used for sonar, which if affixed to a submarine would […]

Artificial intelligences are increasingly making important decisions that affect our lives, but people consider the calls made to be fairer and more acceptable […]

More than 50 cases have been identified so far in an outbreak linked to the Sudan variant of Ebola virus, which has no approved treatment or vaccine

Germany normally relies heavily on Russian gas for domestic heating, but with supplies cut off and energy usage already above average for the time of year, the […]