Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers have found that under certain ...

The world appears to be plagued by crises – at least according to the media. “The financial crisis, the European debt crisis, ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed robotic trousers that enable people to walk more ...

The Australian government is developing legislation that will ban children under 16 from social media. There has been a huge ...

The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these ...

There are cosmic events so powerful that they leave permanent marks on the fabric of the universe itself. Imagine two ...

Most people don’t enjoy getting shots for treatments or vaccines. So, researchers are working to create more medicines, such as those made from messenger RNA (mRNA), that can be sprayed and inhaled. A ...

The rigid structures of language we once clung to with certainty are cracking. Take gender, nationality or religion: these concepts no longer sit comfortably in the stiff linguistic ...

The Australian government is developing legislation that will ban children under 16 from social media. There has been a huge public debate about whether there is sufficient direct ...

As we look to transition to our electric future, researchers are still stumped about how to store the electricity generated by inconsistent renewable power sources like solar ...

We know that the Urban Heat Island Effect can make cities particularly vulnerable to extreme heat, but a new study uncovered something even more surprising: cities might actually be ab ...

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously – a ...