Electric vehicles could store renewable energy when there is excess supply and give it back to the grid when demand peaks, ...

IN THE Antarctic, things happen at a glacial pace. Just ask Peter Gorham. For a month at a time, he and his colleagues would watch a giant balloon carrying a collection of antennas float high above ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has finished the most detailed survey of the universe to date, and the ...

Cyclic cosmology, or the big bounce, is the idea that the universe will eventually crunch back together and then go through ...

Changing your opinion can be difficult, and it’s sometimes even seen as a flaw. But research shows being open-minded has a ...

Terminally ill people are commonly reunited with lost loved ones in their dreams and have visions of doors, stairways and ...

The protein craze is in full swing and beef consumption is on the rise, particularly in the US, where health agencies are ...

Patients are requesting that blood transfusions come from people who they know have not been vaccinated against covid-19, ...

The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

Some gut bacteria recycle discarded sex hormones, like oestrogens, back into the body. The level of these bacteria seems to ...

The gap between genetics and archaeology leaves us with an unclear picture of where the Neanderthals originated. Columnist ...

A detailed analysis of the best-preserved Neanderthal infant skeleton ever found suggests that our ancient relatives grew ...