The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.

Researchers at the University of Innsbruck, together with partners from Sydney and Waterloo, have presented a new diagnostic ...

Background Little is known about the association between direct pollen exposure and cognitive performance. The aim of our ...

All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as life evolved to be more elaborate, it also had to ...

Physicists are scrambling to understand why dark energy is weakening. In a surprising twist, we must now reconsider the ...

Choosing the right method for multimodal AI—systems that combine text, images, and more—has long been trial and error. Emory ...

We’ve been missing an important contributor to ageing, says columnist Graham Lawton. Ultra-processed foods are known to be ...

Something odd is happening deep inside the data streams from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. A set of “forbidden” patterns in how unstable particles decay, combined with rare Higgs events and a ...

As the Russian war in Ukraine marks its fourth anniversary, Marc Laine, just returned from a trip to deliver much-needed ...

Scientists working at the South Pole have completed a major hardware expansion of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, installing new sensor strings deep in Antarctic ice during the 2025-2026 austral ...