Babies with fathers that are 45 years old or over are more likely to have a low birth rate, be admitted to an intensive care unit, or be born premature | Continue reading
The dates of some murals in the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas in China have long been debated, so researchers are using AI to help settle the row | Continue reading
A breakthrough in controlling entanglement with laser or microwave pulses could let us make more accurate quantum computers without having to cool them down | Continue reading
People whose spines have been crushed have regained some mobility thanks to electrical stimulation that seems to encourage the brain to grow new nerve pathways | Continue reading
A toxic compound that builds up in the appendix may trigger Parkinson's - and having your appendix out can lower the risk of developing the brain disorder | Continue reading
Reducing pollution from burning dirty fossil fuels won’t just benefit our health – it might also help limit the increase in extreme summer weather events | Continue reading
An analysis of 250,000-year-old Neanderthal teeth suggests that these ancient humans nursed their young for two and a half years - about the same time as modern humans in traditional societies | Continue reading
A careful look at dinosaur fossil eggs suggests colourful eggs evolved just once – in the group of dinosaurs that eventually gave rise to birds | Continue reading
Virtual currencies were conceived as a tool for the underdog. Venezuela’s leaders are hoping to buy some independence with theirs, says Brett Scott | Continue reading
Climate scientists are still scrapping over the details, but the increased ferocity, unpredictability and spread of tropical storms is in line with predictions | Continue reading
The Extinction Rebellion aims to spark widespread civil disobedience around the world in an effort to force countries to do more to limit climate change | Continue reading
The news we had finally found ripples in space-time reverberated around the world in 2015. Now it seems they might have been an illusion | Continue reading
A surgeon has claimed that screen time is hampering students’ manual dexterity. But studies suggest that, if anything, technology is good for their training | Continue reading
The news we had finally found ripples in space-time reverberated around the world in 2015. Now it seems they might have been an illusion | Continue reading
A digital border guard will be trialled at some borders in Hungary, Latvia and Greece for six months. It includes an AI lie detector, but some doubt it will work | Continue reading
Smoking cannabis can impair memory, but a new study has found that giving up can partially reverse the effect after several days | Continue reading
Giant pandas make all sorts of sounds – honks, chirps, roars – and now we know how to tell if they’ve mated by listening to their bleats | Continue reading
The Kepler Space Telescope has found thousands of planets beyond our solar system in the last decade. Now it has run out of fuel and will be turned off for good | Continue reading
A case of classical BSE was confirmed in Scotland this month. While the disease seems to be on the wane in the UK, many cases worldwide may be going undetected | Continue reading
Smoking cannabis can impair memory, but a new study has found that giving up can partially reverse the effect after several days | Continue reading
The Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy orbiting our own, is leaking a huge amount of gas. In a billion years it may not be able to form new stars anymore | Continue reading
The Neanderthal rib cage was about the same size as ours but a different shape, which suggests the extinct humans could take in more air with each breath | Continue reading
Thanks to clever chemistry and innovative engineering, the cities of the future are being fashioned from cleaner, greener concrete | Continue reading
Emma Stone and Jonah Hill cavort in multiple roles in a show exploring the use of hallucinogenic drugs to treat mental trauma and psychological disorders | Continue reading
Why can’t we remember being babies? Does closing your eyes help you recall? Why can’t I remember what I did 5 seconds ago? What is photographic memory? And more | Continue reading
Few people have heard of it, but the global famine of 1876-78 probably killed 50 million, and it was triggered by a natural climate event that could easily recur | Continue reading
Over 90 per cent of orangutans survive childhood long enough to have their first baby, a feat human societies only achieved in the 1900s | Continue reading
We each have a personal memory style determined by the brain, so next time you argue with someone about what really happened, remember that you may both be right | Continue reading
Photographs show signs of a ghost moon, a translucent gas cloud that orbits Earth along with our moon. But some say the images are not definitive | Continue reading
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s new president, looks set to further weaken protections for the Amazon rainforest, a move that threatens efforts to limit climate change | Continue reading
Rigid light is a strange new state of matter. It’s somewhere between a solid and a superfluid, and can’t be stirred, rotated, or even pushed | Continue reading
Memories fade, but that's no accident. Forgetting is a useful trick of the mind, and even when memories are lost, they aren't always forgotten | Continue reading
Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons is hoping her work building a new type of quantum computer can solve problems we don't even know about | Continue reading
Sun spots – or actinic keratoses – are caused by UV light. Now people are using medicated creams to remove them before they have a chance to turn cancerous | Continue reading
Why do some people remember what they did years ago, whereas others have no clue, but never forget a face or are trivia masters? Here's how to make sense of it | Continue reading
Science isn't just there to be useful, it's a kind of craft. That's the take-home message from a leading Korean artist whose new work is shaped by a spell at CERN | Continue reading
Trawling through surveillance video for a suspect or missing person is slow work, but a new system can automatically match footage of people to their descriptions | Continue reading
When animals huddle together in the cold their gut bacteria change in a way that slows down the animals’ metabolisms and helps them preserve energy | Continue reading
From search engines to Instagram and a reliance on satnav, our relationship with technology is changing the way the brain makes memories, for better and worse | Continue reading
Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus exposed false memories in historic sex abuse cases. Now there are new reasons not to trust your memories, she says | Continue reading
Two new books make big claims, but prove only that reports of the death of Darwinism have been greatly exaggerated | Continue reading
Moments after the big bang, calculations show the universe could have collapsed into black holes. The reason it didn’t could be explained by the Higgs boson | Continue reading
<p>The truth about memory is far more elaborate than we previously thought. Memories aren’t just stored in the brain, but are instead created anew each time you try and recall one. Over a series of 11 articles, we explore the latest research that helps us understa … | Continue reading
If you want to forget an embarrassing encounter, you may just need to try. Forgetting isn't a passive process – so here's how to choose which memories you lose | Continue reading
Mathematics produced by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, has been used to help simplify calculations used by particle physicists | Continue reading
Predators are thriving in places they shouldn't, revealing some serious misunderstandings about their behaviour and how to protect them | Continue reading
Sunshine seems to prevent babies from getting eczema and is more effective than vitamin D supplements, but moderation is advised due to the risk of skin damage | Continue reading
Backbones helped vertebrates conquer the oceans and move onto land. Now a study hints they may have evolved as protection against strong waves in shallow waters | Continue reading