On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu (Shark Bay). To the untrained eye they look like a ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people’s powers of recollection, I’m often asked how memory works – and what we can do to ...

Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls How Good Is the Evidence for Transgender Healthcare for Kids? Not Great. For children with gender dysphoria, gender-affirming medical care can alter the rest ...

At first, this seems like a paradox with a fundamental law of physics somehow getting broken here, but rather ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, ...

At the dawn of the 20th century, old age wasn’t much of a problem. That’s because a newborn in 1900 could expect to live, on ...

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Astronomers using data from the Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have discovered tens of thousands of ...

String theory has changed the foundations of physics profoundly, and I for one am worried about its legacy.

Progress in quantum computing as an industry has been relatively stagnant for a while now. But over the past few weeks, ...