Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He ...

The amount of rainfall in the southern Amazon basin has declined by 8 to 11 per cent since 1980, largely due to the impact of ...

The measles vaccine has prevented 60 million deaths since 2000. So why are so many children around the world missing out on ...

A smartphone’s motion sensor and vibrating ringtone can be used to measure the viscosity of liquids, which can reveal impurities in water, and even test urine to diagnose kidney conditions or ...

Chiara Marchisio is a freelance journalist who writes about science and tech. She has an MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences. Her work has appeared in New Scientist, Science News and Italian ...

A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuroimmune response after a heart attack, which may pave the way for new therapies ...

An evolution-inspired framework for how quantum fuzziness gives rise to our classical world shows that even imperfect ...

Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause temperatures to rebound ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Columnist Helen Thomson investigates the neurological benefits of saunas, and how heat therapy can have anti-inflammatory ...

Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s climate, especially those ...