The long-standing question of how animals came to have an anus may have been solved by studies of which genes are active ...

When researchers asked people to work on a computer with their phones 1.5 metres away, the amount of time they spent on their ...

Some researchers propose that countries should start to rack up a carbon debt once they exceed their carbon budget, obliging ...

"What will happen in South America when the billionaires colonise space?" asks Michel Nieva, author of 'Dengue Boy' a ...

The rise of large language models like ChatGPT that can churn out computer code has led to a new term - vibe coding - for ...

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, seen by some as the Nobel of mathematics, for his contributions to algebraic ...

In the past year, treatments such as Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound have become household names. But there are many questions ...

The race is under way to make faster, cheaper and better GLP-1 drugs that will go beyond reducing obesity levels to treating ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

Anecdotal reports suggest drugs like Ozempic may curb not just appetite but also impulsive or addictive behaviour, hinting at ...

After 34 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data from the James Webb Space ...

Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have the power to block the forces driving obesity, but the knock-on societal effects may not ...