Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am and wonder if something's wrong.

This week in science: bright blue dogs spotted in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; the pros of going gray; a kind of computer ...

When did you last find yourself with some spare time on your hands? A lack of free time, or 'temporal inequity', could be ...

Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults published in 2023 suggests – not in our DNA code itself, but in how that code is expressed.

When metal alloys are processed during manufacturing, the atoms of the combined elements are mixed together at random, according to conventional wisdom – but new research challenges this thinking, ...

A newly discovered protein from Earth's toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

To take a picture, the best digital cameras on the market open their shutter for around around one four-thousandths of a second.

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

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.

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

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

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