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Our brain 'swivels' to focus on sounds from differ...
Many mammals physically pivot their ears to hone in on a particular sound, and now it seems that a s...
Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we rea...
Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now ...
Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower b...
A clinical trial has found that VER-01, a drug derived from cannabis, eases chronic lower back pain ...
The most important mathematician you’ve (probably)...
Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution i...
Ultracold clocks could reveal how quantum physics ...
The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that woul...
Extraordinary pictures show what a common antibiot...
A commonly used class of antibiotics seems to kill bacteria like E. coli by breaking down their toug...
Two-in-one inhalers slash asthma attacks among you...
Inhalers that combine relieving breathlessness with preventing it seem to be the most effective opti...
Lung inflammation may make traumatic events harder...
Severe lung inflammation has been linked to symptoms resembling post-traumatic stress disorder in mi...
Novels with a certain structure are more likely to...
Novels need a gripping story to stay popular as the decades pass, but it seems that other less-obvio...
Did a star blow up and hit Earth 10 million years ...
There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting...
Babies' brains 'tick' more slowly than ours, which...
The rhythm of an infant's brain activity seems to put them in constant learning mode, whereas that o...
Atmospheric chaos has sent temperatures soaring in...
Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across ...
How fast you age may be controlled by a DNA repair...
When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, ...
Reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our ...
The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we tho...
Nanoparticles may be the secret ingredient in maki...
Mixing nanoparticles into some common plastics made them harder to break and possibly easier to proc...
Cheetahs naturally turned into mummies in caves in...
The constant temperature and low humidity of a cave network in Saudi Arabia turned cheetahs, some of...
Climate change is making trees grow larger in the ...
Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past...
Could we have cracked one of the world's toughest ...
It is almost impossible to make cement without emissions, but carbon-capture-and-storage technology ...
