Prudhoe Ice Dome disappeared during a warm period 7000 years ago. Global warming could cause similar temperatures by 2100, ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunders ventures into ...

A galaxy cluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond, Deborah Cohen and Daisy ...

A study of 160 European famines between 1500 and 1800 shows that El Niño weather events led to the onset of some famines and ...

The US government is approving the drug leucovorin to address rising rates of autism, despite limited evidence that it works.

Researchers at Google have used their Willow quantum computer to demonstrate that "quantum contextuality" may be a crucial ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

There is a state of relaxation that few of us spend much time in, but which comes with profound well-being benefits. With ...