A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

With Halloween just around the corner, thousands will be shopping for fancy dress contact lenses to go with their costume.

Ice excavated from deep under the surface of Antarctica has just yielded humanity's oldest directly dated samples of glacial ice and air ever found.

A pregnant woman's blood sample taken in 1972 was mysteriously missing a surface molecule found on all other known red blood cells at the time.

Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth's crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, new analysis suggests.

In a rigorous, double-blinded controlled trial, 82 healthy adults over the age of 65 were randomly assigned to play either ...

While Halloween offers a chance to embrace all things spooky and supernatural, the real terrors this season aren't confined to ghost stories.

Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed NGC 6537, the Red Spider Nebula in unprecedented detail, ...

New observations of a strange object that wobbles around the space between Jupiter and Uranus reveal what looks like a system ...

If you take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, you may have noticed a flurry of news coverage since late October 2025 ...

A search for Parkinson's in the hiss of our brain's static has revealed measures of motor control that could one day ...