Ancient DNA confirms that the nineteenth-century carnivores hunted humans and a variety of wild game, including a surprising ...

The awards’ strict constraints often prompt frustration — if these prestigious prizes were made for the twenty-first century, ...

Young children in the playground behave like molecules in a gas, but kids undergo a phase change in a more structured setting ...

Many are bizarre and live in salt lakes, hydrothermal vents and other extreme environments.

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Nobel committees recognized the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) in two of this year’s prizes — honouring ...

Artificial-intelligence tools offer a variety of approaches to help scientists to sift through the literature — how can ...

A surging market for ‘fish maw’ is pushing threatened species to the brink. Researchers are trying to limit the damage.

Weight loss and metabolic improvements do not explain the longevity benefits of severe dietary restrictions, research in mice ...

Efforts to make therapeutics from the tiny RNA molecules have been ‘in a little bit of a slump’, but that might soon change.

Quantum machines have a noise threshold past which classical machines cannot best them, researchers have learnt.

This year's prize celebrates computational tools that have transformed biology and have the potential to revolutionise drug ...