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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

An odd solid that can flow like a fluid has been created from light for the first time. Studying it will help researchers better understand exotic quantum states of matter. “We actually made light ...

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 ...

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