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No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't les...

The idea that the rise of tech means today's young people are less intelligent t...

Should your menstrual phase dictate what you eat and ho...

The idea of varying your lifestyle throughout your menstrual cycle to help relie...

Inside the outlandish, futuristic dreams of the tech bros

Exposing the origins of the improbable – and at times scary – plans of tech bill...

Could the ancient Greeks have invented quantum theory?

There were hints that the world may be quantum long before the development of qu...

Lab-grown chicken could be made chewier using artificia...

Scientists have used an artificial circulatory system to create lab-grown chicke...

Rain could be a clean way of generating lots of electri...

Water falls on Earth every day as rain, and now scientists seem to have found a ...

What exactly would a full-scale quantum computer be use...

As quantum computers mature, they will be transformational. But there are good r...

Puppy intelligence tests can predict how dogs will turn...

Puppies’ performance in cognitive tests at 3 to 7 months old can give a strong i...

Why quantum computers may continue to fail a key test

There have been several claims of quantum computers performing at a level imposs...

Largest ever US honeybee die-off has destroyed 1.6 mill...

Beekeepers often experience some seasonal losses, but this past winter, more tha...

Wind farm developers are worried about neighbours steal...

Wakes from offshore wind farms can reduce the power generated by neighbouring fa...

Cannibal spiders have strange trick to stop their sibli...

A spider species eat their siblings as soon as they die but tolerate each other ...

Kennedy has taken a sledgehammer to the US's public health

The US anti-vaccine movement is now firmly embedded in the highest levels of gov...

Mammoth tusk flakes may be the oldest ivory objects mad...

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practise...

Common artificial sweetener makes you three times hungr...

The artificial sweetener sucralose increases brain activity in regions involved ...

Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique ...

The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evoluti...

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