Memories in mice persisted even after they lost the connections that we thought were needed for recall, expanding our ...

Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from ...

Facilitating the journey of these materials from the first cut into the earth to lights out on race day is a fleet of Komatsu ...

My family tree doubles at every past ancestor generation and continues branching back into the past. At what point does it ...

Quantum entanglement is key to solving a 250-year-old mathematical puzzle – and the discovery could ultimately help build quantum computers that are more resilient to errors. In the 1700s, according ...

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Are you getting enough rest? In this episode of Change Your Mind, health journalists Helen Thomson and Cat de Lange dive into the psychology and neuroscience of rest to find out how we can make the ...

The fate of a critical ocean current may depend more on how fast our planet heats up than the temperature level we ultimately end up with. Earth could warm by more than 5°C above pre-industrial levels ...

Photographers in Spain captured spectacular images of the rare alignment of the moon and the sun, as it cast a dark shadow over much of the country ...

Parts of the US and Africa, along with the entire UK and much of Europe and Canada, will see a partial solar eclipse. Thanks to our friends at The European Space Agency (ESA), you can watch their live ...

Creatures that bridged the gap between reptiles and mammals may have been bearing live young 90 million years earlier than we thought. One of the hallmarks of all mammals apart from monotremes – ...

Pushing a pram while running may reduce the force produced with each foot strike, decreasing the risk of injuries ...