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

What sets humans apart from the rest of life, or indeed inert matter? Many people would respond that it is our intelligence. Yet the rise of seemingly intelligent machines challenges this way of ...

As a six-year investigation into the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica wraps up, the scientists involved are pessimistic for the ...

Genetic analysis shows that microbes growing inside the International Space Station have adaptations for radiation and low ...

Forest loss is thought to have played a part in record low rainfall across South America this year, in a sign that ...

Making hydrogen from seawater can be tricky because the salt is corrosive and the process can create toxic chlorine gas – new ...

A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against ...

An artificial intelligence model that can identify the calls of eight whale species is helping researchers track the elusive ...

Medically evacuating an astronaut from space is difficult and expensive, and a new model predicts that one in three ...

Nearly imperceptible quantum flickers used to limit how precisely we could detect the way space-time ripples, but squeezing ...

A sprawling research program aims to improve hurricane forecasts by collecting data at the chaotic interface of ocean and ...