The 2026 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for the ...

Mathematicians warn that pre-print service arXiv is so flooded with AI slop papers that it has become virtually unusable – ...

The list of age-related conditions we can avoid by limiting sugar is shockingly long. But does that mean we should stop our ...

State-of-the-art generative AI models like ChatGPT can be tricked into giving instructions on how to make a bomb by simply writing the request in reverse, warn researchers. Large language models (LLMs ...

Rising global temperatures are likely to cause deep losses to the world’s most important crops – despite farmers’ best efforts to adapt. A global analysis of crop yields suggests that, by the end of ...

A daily omega-3 supplement seems to slow biological ageing in older people, particularly if combined with vitamin D and exercise. We already knew that omega-3s – “good” fats found in seeds, nuts and ...

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, is our most potent weight-loss drug, but it can be made even more effective when ...

Therapy and drugs are the go-to options for treating mental health. But psychologist Kimberley Wilson argues that what we eat ...

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times ...

Every few years, a disturbance in the Pacific Ocean is amplified by feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere, unleashing heat ...

Most of the drones being used by Russia in the war with Ukraine are controlled by cables several tens of kilometres long. A ...

We’ve long expected animals to move to cooler habitats as climate change bites, but it now appears that many are actually ...