Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain ...

We now have the ability to rapidly assess the impact of climate change after extreme weather events – a first of its kind ...

A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma ...

Some numbers are so unimaginably large that they defy the bounds of modern mathematics, and now mathematicians are closing in ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is ...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” just signed by President Trump will slash support for clean energy, leaving the US far short of ...

Interest in the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin skyrocketed during the covid-19 pandemic, but evidence for many of its ...

Suddenly feeling old? Evidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically age around three ...

The loss of snow cover in temperate forests is set to slow their growth and reduce their ability to remove carbon from the ...

Computers can help ensure that mathematical proofs are correct, but translating traditional maths into a machine-readable ...

Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensitive than a dog’s nose can pick up their traces ...