The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

An ultrastable laser could enable extremely precise timing and navigation on the moon, and the cold, dark craters near the ...

A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organi ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly ...

The psychedelic DMT has been linked to improved mental health outcomes before, but now, scientists have shown it reduces depression symptoms more than a placebo when given alongside therapeutic suppor ...

A gene therapy that patients breathe in has been found to shrink lung tumours by inserting immune-boosting genes into ...