Expectations are low for the UN climate conference in Belém, Brazil, but the host’s pragmatic approach could help make ...

A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and ...

Recent outages have revealed how vulnerable the internet is, but there seems to be no official plan in the event of a ...

Building a working quantum internet would require overcoming a host of technical challenges, but researchers who have built ...

In the largest genetic analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome to date, scientists have identified new variants linked to the ...

Getting covid-19 for the first time slightly increased the risk of heart inflammation, blood clots and bleeding disorders among children, whereas being vaccinated against the virus was much safer and ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...

There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications ...

All over the world people are ageing more rapidly and succumbing to diseases that typically affected the elderly. But there ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

For the first time, video footage has captured orcas in the Gulf of California hunting young great white sharks, using a ...