The latest neuroscience shows that, contrary to a lot of productivity advice, the drive to make the most of every waking ...

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions and developments yet to come. We visit 2032 and meet ...

The discovery that a small blue blob of neurons, the locus coeruleus, controls your mode of thinking suggests ways to ...

A new book from the science-writing legend is an Attenborough-esque romp through some of the wonders of the natural world.

The Nobel committees seem to have an unfortunate habit of overlooking women and Black people when it comes to science – this ...

The discovery that certain smells can be linked to specific neurons is helping us understand how the brain encodes concepts ...

If gravity is a truly quantum entity, something as simple as measuring the strength of an object’s gravitational field should ...

David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for research on predicting ...

An army of tadpoles and a stretching lynx are just some of the incredible photos winning accolades at the annual competition ...

Brain scans of people tasting squirts of hot sauce have revealed how positive and negative expectations can influence brain ...

Scientists from Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, in the UK have worked with a team of Brazilian paramotorists in the Peruvian ...

Key climate indicators from greenhouse gas levels to ice loss have reached record levels this year in what researchers call a ...