Male mosquitoes infected with a parasite have been released in Barcelona to reduce the number of mosquitoes that can transmit ...

Cohen’s influential research helped pin autism as a particularly male condition. As studies increasingly broaden our view of ...

There is a growing backlash against the way AI companies have gone about tackling mathematical problems – and now some ...

Popular conceptions of AI differ drastically between the US and China. Columnist Annalee Newitz dives into the cultural, ...

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

A row over when to publish crucial climate change assessments risks letting countries off the hook on emissions cuts ...

Northern bottlenose whales have stronger social bonds when they are starving or sick. This discovery was a surprise, because ...

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 ...

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

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

Excavations in the Côa valley in Portugal, the world’s largest site of Palaeolithic open-air rock art, are yielding clues ...