There is a widespread belief that altruism and equality drive social behaviour in traditional hunter-gatherer societies, but ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin ...

From legal challenges to lesser-known apps, the teenagers of Australia are already preparing to push back against a law that ...

We know that pets influence our microbiome, but scientists have now found that having a dog seems to change this ecosystem in ...

Voters change their opinions after interacting with an AI chatbot – but, encouragingly, it seems that AIs rely on facts to ...

There is relatively little information on the long-term health effects of tattooing, but a couple of recent studies suggest the art form might trigger prolonged inflammation ...

Tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to a shift in the body’s metabolism that means muscle cells outcompete cancer cells ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

The AI industry consumes vast amounts of energy, fresh water and investor cash. Now it also needs memory chips - the same ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, an unusual experiment is deliberately pumping out greenhouse gas to measure how flora and ...

The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers are willingly catching ...