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

A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space. But the device has a ...