A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch towards hunting reindeer for ...

Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm and dry weather, ...

Hackers may be able to garble the output of programs running on quantum computers, leaving other people with unknowingly ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

Scientists have found scour marks on the seabed made by giant icebergs about 18,000 years ago, and they could offer clues to ...

Feedback notes the flurry of new papers mentioning the mysterious "vegetative electron microscope", and ponders the emergence ...

Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved treatment to reduce the risk of allergic ...

In 2004, a remarkable life-saving public-private health project began on Equatorial Guinea’s Bioko Island, off the coast of ...

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space. But the device has a ...

Special relativity could be harnessed to build a novel quantum computer, and creating it this way could let us use machine learning to deepen our understanding of the quantum realm. Albert ...