A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch towards hunting reindeer for ...

Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm and dry weather, ...

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

Hackers may be able to garble the output of programs running on quantum computers, leaving other people with unknowingly ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved treatment to reduce the risk of allergic ...

In 2004, a remarkable life-saving public-private health project began on Equatorial Guinea’s Bioko Island, off the coast of ...

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumonia, and its effect on ...

A device has enabled people to see a new a shade of blue-green, which they say is more intense than any experienced before ...

Feedback notes the flurry of new papers mentioning the mysterious "vegetative electron microscope", and ponders the emergence ...

A global biopharma is fighting malaria in endemic countries through partnerships that harness R&D, broaden access to ...