The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process ...

Mathematicians now have a formidable new tool for breaking open challenging problems, working out how best to use it is not ...

A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely ...

Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America ...

If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it absorbs, ...

The El Niño phase now under way will be the most damaging on record for the Amazon, scientists warn, raising the risk of ...

Quantum theory says a vacuum isn’t truly empty, but proving it directly has remained out of reach. A new experiment using ...

Over the past 20 years, scientists have acquired a much fuller understanding of the biological pathways of ageing and are ...

Converting the proof of Fermat's last theorem into code that computers can check was expected to take years – Anthropic's ...

Famous and challenging problems in mathematics are falling to AI at a rapid pace. Where does this leave mathematicians and ...

Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, and ...

Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise. By 2100, such feedback loops will increase warming by 20 to ...