Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth's magnetic field and the way continents and tectonic plates have shifted across millennia – but for some periods, the geological ...

Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults published in 2023 suggests – not ...

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am and ...

Our gut is full of tiny creatures that help us digest our food, protect us from harmful intruders, and act as the telephone line between our digestive system and brain.

When metal alloys are processed during manufacturing, the atoms of the combined elements are mixed together at random, ...

To take a picture, the best digital cameras on the market open their shutter for around around one four-thousandths of a second.

A newly discovered protein from Earth's toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

This week in science: bright blue dogs spotted in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; the pros of going gray; a kind of computer ...

A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

If you take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, you may have noticed a flurry of news coverage since late October 2025 ...

When did you last find yourself with some spare time on your hands? A lack of free time, or 'temporal inequity', could be ...

Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking ...