A snack here, a ready-meal there. Ultra-processed foods are woven into everyday life, often without much thought. However, ...

A distant icy object beyond Neptune has revealed a surprising hint of activity, raising a mystery that could change how ...

Modern octopuses are known as escape artists of the sea, soft-bodied, elusive, and almost impossible to pin down. But a new ...

For years, the standard advice on exercise has sounded simple: move more. But a large new study suggests that message may be missing something important. It may not be only how much you move that ...

Artificial intelligence can write emails, spot patterns in medical scans, and answer questions in seconds. But behind that speed is a growing energy bill. Every new model, every extra server, and ...

We’ve all experienced that post-workout mental clarity - that feeling of being a bit "sharper" after hitting the gym or going for a run. But what is actually happening inside our heads to cause that?

For most of astronomy’s history, the death of a massive star has been a loud event. A supernova flares so brightly it can briefly outshine an entire galaxy. But a new study describes something far ...

A box of bones does not usually look like a plot twist. But when paleontologists began studying a set of unusually small fossils from Spain, they realized they were dealing with something that did not ...

The Ring Nebula is one of those sky objects people come back to again and again. It looks familiar, it photographs well, and it has been studied for generations. So when researchers pointed a new ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have been convinced that most of the universe is made of something we can’t see. This invisible “stuff” seems to glue galaxies together and shape the cosmos, yet it ...

Thinking of astronaut food we often imagine floating packets of pre-cooked meals. But as our aim for space missions becomes longer and humans plan to stay on the Moon or even Mars, having access to ...

Scientists at the University of Manchester and The Australian National University have created a new molecule that may soon enable ultra-compact hard drives (the size of a postage stamp) by allowing ...