We have long had a seemingly simple question about neutrinos: how much do they weigh? Now, a gigantic experiment in China is ...

A dinosaur that is new to science has features of both subfamilies of the tyrannosaur group, complicating our understanding ...

Useful quantum computers will have to use many “logical qubits” as their computational building blocks, and researchers just ...

The Drake equation provides a way to guess how many aliens we might be able to communicate with, but it’s also a prime ...

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El Niño has already raised sea levels in part of the eastern Pacific by 40 centimetres and as it continues to strengthen ...

Hundreds of children have died of starvation and disease in a drought in Sudan caused by the record-breaking El Niño. The ...

Since 1972, officials have added 27 leap seconds to the universal clock, but in a meeting this week in France they have ...

A 75,000-year-old skeleton offers a glimpse into the violent world in which Neanderthals lived, but also offers hints that ...

Error-proofing the most important operations performed on a quantum computer has so far required lots of resources, but a new ...

Droughts and flooding brought by El Niño threaten crops around the world, raising the risk of increased prices and famines ...

Starting in January, students attending Skyview High School in Virginia will learn about the building blocks and principles ...