The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now researchers have found it is possible to pull off this trick in the strange realm of quantum mechanics ...

Intermittent fasting appears to be no better than doing nothing when it comes to helping people who are overweight or have ...

A gene therapy that patients breathe in has been found to shrink lung tumours by inserting immune-boosting genes into ...

The activity of certain neurons may influence our endurance for exercise, and these could be targeted to help us run faster ...

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

Biologists have long thought that speaking to nature’s economic value would persuade boardrooms it was worth saving. It ...

About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ...

A review of the evidence suggests that statins are no more likely than a placebo to cause most of the side effects listed on ...

The first people to reach the Kitsissut Islands off the north-west coast of Greenland were Indigenous peoples, who crossed ...