For those who want a little help composting, take a cue from James Woodford’s experience raising worms – both the small ...

AI predicted that a forgotten breast cancer drug could be repurposed to treat many respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, ...

Recognising rhythmic patterns was thought to require a big brain, but a series of experiments has shown that buff-tailed ...

Improved hardware can send ten times as much data through existing fibre-optic cables, potentially providing a way to ...

A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang ...

The ice-covered island may be strategically important, but it's unclear that it could be a commercially viable source of minerals and oil in the near future ...

Nelson Dellis credits techniques like the method of loci for his extraordinary memory. Now, brain scans have revealed the ...

What happens if you stop banning drugs? New Zealand is about to find out – and the rest of the world is watching Less liver ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that life suddenly diversified during the Cambrian explosion ...

Photographer Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the industrialisation taking place in the Amazon rainforest after the ...

If you are unlucky enough to have been bitten by a snake, you are unlikely to want to repeat the experience. Not so for Tim ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...