As a step towards a useful and ultra-secure quantum internet, researchers have created an operating system that coordinates ...

Radical new insights from the science of interoception – how the body senses its internal state – explain the real reasons we ...

Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin species living in western Europe around a ...

Scientists have struggled to explain why global temperatures have shot up in recent years, but ocean cloud cover has now emerged as a crucial piece of the puzzle ...

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires ...

Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a type of dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, in 2007 – ...

D-Wave's claim that its quantum computers can solve problems that would take hundreds of years on classical machines have ...

Palaeontologists have discovered 66 three-toed dinosaur footprints in a slab of rock that has been on display for 20 years at a school in Queensland ...

Farming arose on multiple continents among populations with radically different cultures and environments and with no means ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

Linguists, psychologists and experts in cultural evolution are discovering why we tell stories, how ancient the oldest ones ...

Men who had given blood more than 100 times in their life were more likely to have blood cells carrying certain beneficial ...