Water flow in the river Thames has dropped low enough to warrant the use of England’s only large-scale desalination plant, ...

In 800 years, a group of students is sitting in a graduate seminar devoted to an era known as the Void Ages. They’ve read a couple of books and watched some of the two-dimensional, low-resolution ...

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

Since the 2000s, our light exposure has changed drastically as we make our buildings more energy-efficient. Now, we’re ...

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

Even during a solar eclipse, it isn’t safe to look directly at the sun, but with a proper solar filter or a simple pinhole ...

A rocket launched last year is thought to have smashed into the lunar surface this morning, creating the moon's newest crater ...

Two research teams have independently created devices within which sound waves could be separated by frequency, creating the ...

A new approach to breast augmentation injects fat from elsewhere in the body into dissolvable scaffolds shaped like bra cups, ...

An out-of-control SpaceX rocket that crashed into the moon earlier this week did, in fact, leave an impact crater, according ...

The standard model of physics is one of the most successful scientific theories in existence, but do we need it all?

High temperatures and low water levels have forced several countries to shut down nuclear reactors just as citizens turn up ...