A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

The US National Science Foundation cancelled funding for research on misinformation, disinformation and AI-generated ...

Cholera should no longer exist, yet it kills thousands of people every year. New analysis from international group WaterAid ...

Text-generating AIs such as ChatGPT can be used to hide encrypted messages inside fake conversations, which could help people ...

In 2004, a remarkable life-saving public-private health project began on Equatorial Guinea’s Bioko Island, off the coast of ...

Last week astronomers reported hints of biological activity on a distant planet, but a re-analysis of their data suggests the ...

A global biopharma is fighting malaria in endemic countries through partnerships that harness R&D, broaden access to ...

Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm and dry weather, ...

Hackers may be able to garble the output of programs running on quantum computers, leaving other people with unknowingly ...

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumonia, and its effect on ...

Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved treatment to reduce the risk of allergic ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...