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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

In the first study of its kind, scientists have discovered that feeding bees absorbent bits of hydrogel boosts their chances ...

The Cassini mission’s samples from Saturn’s moon Enceladus have signs of various organic molecules that could be among the ...

A powerful new AI called o1 is the most dangerous that OpenAI has ever released, the firm claims – but who are these warnings ...

The direction of cause and effect was brought into question for quantum objects more than a decade ago, but new calculations ...

Extreme weather events lasting more than a decade could have killed off forests 250 million years ago, contributing to ...