The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

An ultrastable laser could enable extremely precise timing and navigation on the moon, and the cold, dark craters near the ...

A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

A gene therapy that patients breathe in has been found to shrink lung tumours by inserting immune-boosting genes into ...

Intermittent fasting appears to be no better than doing nothing when it comes to helping people who are overweight or have obesity lose weight ...

Comet C/2024 E1 has been photographed as it nears Earth - but even at its closest, it will still be 150 million kilometres ...