The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

An ultrastable laser could enable extremely precise timing and navigation on the moon, and the cold, dark craters near the ...

A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly ...

A gene therapy that patients breathe in has been found to shrink lung tumours by inserting immune-boosting genes into ...

Intermittent fasting appears to be no better than doing nothing when it comes to helping people who are overweight or have obesity lose weight ...

Comet C/2024 E1 has been photographed as it nears Earth - but even at its closest, it will still be 150 million kilometres ...