Analysis of millions of galaxies upholds Albert Einstein’s ideas about gravity and also offers tantalising new hints of how ...

The vast computational power of the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California will be ...

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could ...

A cataclysmic quantum fluctuation could wipe out everything at any moment. The fact that we’re still here is revealing hidden ...

More than 20 million people have joined Bluesky, a social network that gives you fine-grained control over what you see and ...

The largest number of logical qubits has been linked through quantum entanglement, which is a key step towards quantum ...

Several populations of Mexican tetra fish that live in darkness have independently evolved to need hardly any sleep, but the ...

Four southern giant hornets have been identified in northern Spain, leading to concerns that the species could harm native ...

Most mathematicians have been reluctant to start working with artificial intelligence, but a new tool developed by ...

I’m responsible for independent PhD research, where I am investigating the use of multispectral and hyperspectral cameras, to detect potato cyst nematode. One of the most important pests of potatoes ...

Scottish film-maker Duncan Cowles has always been rubbish at talking about his feelings. He was born into a family of stoic, “silent men” for whom love is something you only express in a ...

A supercomputer simulation of iron and carbon atoms in Earth’s inner core may explain how a molten ball at the centre of our ...