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The journal Science retracts a headline-grabbing study, but the authors vigorously defend their data and say the retraction ...
The Trump administration plans the departure for the end of 2026 and criticizes the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Now the Spanish government has pitched to bring the giant facility to La Palma, in Spain’s Canary Islands — and backed up the effort with a pledge to contribute €400 million (US$470 million).
Heating that lasted only trillionths of a second raised a gold sample’s temperature to 19,000 K without melting it, a study ...
A 50 nm thick sheet of solid gold was heated well beyond a theoretical limit, suggests new study — plus, what researchers think about the threat of nuclear war. This YouTube video cannot be played due ...
An artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict where ancient Latin texts come from, estimate how old they are and restore ...
Scientists and regulators are divided over the threat posed by rising levels of a chemical called TFA.
Mice with a version of osteoarthritis experienced symptom relief after expression of a protein targeting a stem-cell receptor ...
One day in the Middle Miocene, some 11 million to 16 million years ago, a roughly 4.8-metre-long caiman ate a terror bird 1.
Study of nearly 1,000 people showed that brain ageing was not linked to infection status, but cognitive decline was.
With US investment in polar science under threat, scientists hope that China’s interest in the region will benefit research.
When they analysed patterns of brain activity in the MPFC, the researchers found that optimistic people seemed to have ...