Science Features

As residents in the Caribbean try to piece together their lives after being battered by two powerful hurricanes in a...

By combining car sharing apps with a smartphone’s ability to measure movement and vibration, researchers are hoping to...

Lively—almost childlike—the 70-year-old men skipped out of a monastery one fine morning. They’d just spent five days...

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What if an app could recognise when you are craving unhealthy food and give you a notification to warn you not to eat...

Discarded gas from black holes spreads across galaxies and can even influence the formation of stars

How reptiles turned into mammals...

Bee-based maths is helping teach swarms of drones to find weeds, while robotic mowers keep hedgerows in shape.

Disabling and disruptive to the lives of sufferers, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) affects around 740,000 people...

现在现在,human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe – but that may be about to change...

Blockchain technology developed to guarantee the value of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum is now being...

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Naked Scientist Kat Arney has written a new book about human genetics.

Microscopic structures that can bend light are helping researchers lay the foundations of an invisibility cloak.

How did vertebrates go from swimming in the seas to walking on land?

Artificial skin with post-human sensing capabilities, and a better understanding of skin tissue, could pave the way for...

Labelling patients with conditions like schizophrenia or depression might become a thing of the past as doctors and...

Traffic pollution in European cities can stall children’s brain development and stop them from reaching their full...

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Fingerprint scanners are all the rage, yet new research shows that this is just the beginning of biometric...

By identifying the most influential kids in small social media circles, researchers can create positive peer pressure...

Extremely thin printable solar panels could power your phone and are amongst a range of new ways nanotechnology is...

How did we find out what lurks inside the atom?

Everybody needs a helping hand when they get older – but in years to come that helping hand may be attached to a...