Most of the ancient underground aqueducts that enabled humans to settle in the world’s hottest and driest regions have been ...

Artificial intelligence has more in common with ants than humans, says Neil Lawrence. Only by taking a more nuanced view of ...

Loneliness was long thought to cause health conditions ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular disease, but new research ...

The long-standing mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so huge so quickly could be solved by decaying dark matter ...

A species of leaf chameleon newly named Brookesia nofy was discovered in a patch of coastal rainforest, a highly threatened ...

The human brain goes through significant changes during pregnancy with few regions untouched, according to the first ever map ...

A chemical reaction that recycles carbon dioxide into fresh oxygen could provide more sustainable life support for astronauts on the moon or Mars – and as a bonus, it also produces carbon nanotubes ...