A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and ...

Building a working quantum internet would require overcoming a host of technical challenges, but researchers who have built ...

Enamel does not naturally regenerate, which can lead to painful cavities, but a gel that harnesses some of the properties of saliva could restore the hard, shiny layer to teeth ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications ...

There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to ...

All over the world people are ageing more rapidly and succumbing to diseases that typically affected the elderly. But there ...

Alzheimer's-related cognitive decline could be slowed by taking as few as 3000 steps a day, possibly due to the effects of regular exercise on brain health ...

For the first time, video footage has captured orcas in the Gulf of California hunting young great white sharks, using a ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are exciting, but there is no reason to claim that they are evidence of alien spacecraft – ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...