An ancient spear-throwing tool enabled prehistoric hunters to boost the distance they could launch a feathered projectile – but the unexpected negative effects of gravity on the tool may explain why ...

Snub-nosed monkey mums are picky when choosing a babysitter, permitting experienced females to care for their infants more often than young and inexperienced ones. Many primates rely on the help of ...

People with cognitive decline or early-stage dementia saw their symptoms improve when given bespoke treatment plans that ...

Physicists have long suspected that there is a layer of physical reality beneath quantum theory and a new mathematical model ...

A clinical trial to reverse age-related vision conditions using stem cell treatment could finally deliver on the promise of a ...

Measuring the strength of gravity is extraordinarily difficult, and different experiments have always disagreed – but a new ...

Exercise has been touted as a tool for managing and treating long covid, but much of the evidence has neglected one of its ...

During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest ...

A powerful AI kept from public access because of its ability to hack computers with impunity is making headlines around the ...

A planet-warming El Niño climate phase is now developing, and some models predict it could turn out to be the strongest on ...

The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

The food industry has made big promises to reduce emissions and become more sustainable, but a review concludes that many of ...