Google is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units – a type of computer chip specially designed for AI – to ...

Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mass that now makes up ...

Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being  a ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

Iain M Banks published his debut novel The Wasp Factory in 1984. He went on to write 28 more novels, with his literary ...

Bethany Jacobs' debut science fiction novel, These Burning Stars, won the Philip K. Dick Award. Her books also include On ...

Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size ...

Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be ...

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment ...

Chytrid fungus is a scourge to global amphibian populations, but before it kills some frogs, it can produce symptoms that may ...

New tools that create ultra-precise maps of our tissues are transforming our ability to diagnose and cure once-fatal ...

Captive giant pandas have been seen breaking off twigs and bamboo pieces to scratch hard-to-reach spots, using a crude ...