Einstein’s general theory of relativity can be summed up in just 12 words: “Space-time tells matter how to move; matter tells space-time how to curve”. But this short description from the physicist ...

Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America ...

Mathematicians now have a formidable new tool for breaking open challenging problems, working out how best to use it is not ...

A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely ...

If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it absorbs, ...

Over the past 20 years, scientists have acquired a much fuller understanding of the biological pathways of ageing and are ...

Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, and ...

The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process ...

Elon Musk firm’s Colossus 2 data centre – the largest in the US – has been spewing out nitrogen oxide emissions from trailer-mounted gas turbines, an analysis suggests ...

AI company Anthropic has created a formalised proof of Fermat’s last theorem. It took just 11 days for a group of AI agents to complete the task, confirming that the human-found proof proposed in the ...

Quantum theory says a vacuum isn’t truly empty, but proving it directly has remained out of reach. A new experiment using ...

Famous and challenging problems in mathematics are falling to AI at a rapid pace. Where does this leave mathematicians and ...