How did the supermassive black holes we’re now seeing in the early universe get so big so fast? Astrophysicist Sophie Koudmani is using sophisticated galaxy simulations to figure it out ...

Rapid erosion caused by a geological act of “piracy” tens of thousands of years ago may have raised Earth’s crust and elevated Mount Everest by as much as 50 metres ...

A beam of radioactive carbon ions has been used to destroy cancer cells in mice, demonstrating a therapy that may cause less ...

Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a ...

Northern sea robins are formidable marine hunters, and they owe their success to modified fin rays that let them find prey ...

Dopamine was long thought to play a part in the placebo effect for pain relief, but a new study is questioning its true role ...

Using more training data and computational power is meant to make AIs more reliable, but tests suggest large language models ...

Genetic testing on samples collected during the earliest days of the covid-19 outbreak suggests it is likely that the virus ...

DNA and protein analysis has identified a white substance smeared on mummies in China as a kind of kefir cheese, made from ...

Archaeologists have used AI to discover hundreds of large-scale drawings depicting figures like llamas, decapitated human ...

It seems to be more energy efficient for emus to keep one foot on the ground when running at a moderate pace, and the same ...

New research is revealing that common sense is a lot more idiosyncratic than we thought, with important implications for ...