A beam of radioactive carbon ions has been used to destroy cancer cells in mice, demonstrating a therapy that may cause less ...

A new covid-19 variant called XEC has started to spread in many regions worldwide, primarily in Europe. Early evidence indicates that it may be transmitted more easily than past variants, but ...

Smart TVs from Samsung and LG take screenshots of what you are watching even when you are using them to display images from a ...

Taking a day flight could be a swift way to limit the climate impact of a holiday, as new research suggests vapour trails produced by jets can cool the planet during the daytime. Soot particles ...

Northern sea robins are formidable marine hunters, and they owe their success to modified fin rays that let them find prey ...

Dopamine was long thought to play a part in the placebo effect for pain relief, but a new study is questioning its true role ...

DNA and protein analysis has identified a white substance smeared on mummies in China as a kind of kefir cheese, made from ...

Using more training data and computational power is meant to make AIs more reliable, but tests suggest large language models ...

Bacteria that have been genetically engineered to work like computers can solve a range of problems, using a very simple type ...

Our immune cells change a lot as the decades progress, which could explain why we become more susceptible to certain ...

Astronomer Jo Dunkley is planning to use the Simons Observatory to snare evidence for inflation, the theory that the universe ...

It seems to be more energy efficient for emus to keep one foot on the ground when running at a moderate pace, and the same ...