Ultra-fast pulses of laser light can be shaped into vortices similar to smoke rings – when chained together, they can carry ...

Two surveys of millions of stars in our galaxy have revealed mysterious spikes in infrared heat across dozens of star systems ...

People who can run a mile in less than 4 minutes generally live almost five years longer than would otherwise be expected, ...

Heavy, prolonged or painful menstrual periods are associated with more days off school and scoring worse on compulsory exams ...

With a bit of training, macaques can make rhythmic movements in time with music, an ability only shown before by a handful of ...

Surprising recent measurements hint that the universe isn’t expanding in the way we had thought, and it could be explained by ...

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Artificial compounds found in things like food packaging can be a risk to our health. We can clean them up, but who will foot ...

A new robotic hand can withstand being smashed by pistons or walloped with a hammer. It was designed to survive the trial-and ...

The Red Planet launches large bursts of plasma into space from its upper atmosphere, much like the sun’s coronal mass ...

For decades, cosmologists have been fighting over the Hubble constant, a number that represents the expansion rate of the ...

Around 3000 years ago, several empires and kingdoms in the Mediterranean collapsed, with a group of sea-faring warriors ...