The workings of the small intestine have long been a mystery, but now we are discovering the hidden roles this organ plays in ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, physicists are still debating the true nature of this strange theory - and recentl ...

Using machine learning to analyse data from a powerful black hole observatory, researchers found the black hole at the centre ...

A gaggle of companies are searching the US Midwest for underground hydrogen fuel produced by a billion-year-old split in the ...

The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the first ever artificial solar eclipse ...

There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of "memory cells" that record the whole history of the universe ...

A brain-computer interface has enabled a man with paralysis to have real-time conversations, without the usual delay in ...

A small panel managed to extract a glassful of clean water from the bone-dry air of Death Valley in California, which ...

Artificial organ transplants have been held back by the difficulty of making networks of blood vessels - a problem scientists ...

The universe will still be there to marvel at, despite brutal cuts set to hit NASA and the National Science Foundation's ...

If you struggle with small talk or find it hard to express yourself, research by psychologist Alison Wood Brooks and others ...