From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional ...

Soil is full of an uncountable number of viruses, and scientists are only beginning to understand just how substantial their ...

DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and ...

Light can be directed and steered around bends using a method similar to the way clouds scatter photons, which could lead to ...

If every chimpanzee on Earth were given a typewriter, they wouldn’t reproduce the works of William Shakespeare even if they kept on typing until the heat death of the universe, researchers have ...

It’s been detected in birds on every continent except Australia, seals in South America, foxes in Canada, as well as poultry, ...

Most ingredients touted as the key to better health fail to live up to the hype but fibre bucks this trend, with benefits for ...

A newly proposed cosmic speed limit may constrain how fast anything in the universe can grow. Its existence follows from Alan ...

Nearly 5 per cent of new Wikipedia pages that are published in English seem to contain text generated by artificial ...

Simulations suggest that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it is powering, the device can gain ...

A typically fragile quantum superposition has been made to last exceptionally long, and could eventually be used as a probe ...

Endurance sank beneath the ice during Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic expedition. More than a hundred years later, ...