New global rules will see a carbon levy applied to emissions from shipping for the first time, but analysts say the package ...

An excavation in northern Sudan suggests there were limits to the military might of the Roman Empire – even if the Romans weren’t prepared to admit them. The imperial forces claimed they destroyed an ...

Two independent research teams have developed methods for hacking noisy quantum computers based on a row-hammer attack, a ...

A century since Werner Heisenberg changed the course of physics, five of the world's leading physicists examine the greatest ...

On a faraway planet, James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living ...

The idea of varying your lifestyle throughout your menstrual cycle to help relieve PMS or period pain seems intuitive, but ...

It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...

General relativity is an astonishingly beautiful theory, and grappling with why it disagrees with quantum mechanics is a joy, ...

Quantum theory started with a bout of hay fever, and went on to transform our view of the universe – but its legacy isn't ...

Feedback was pleased to come across journalist Taylor Lorenz's coining of the word "viralflation", as videos with hundreds of ...

Exposing the origins of the improbable – and at times scary – plans of tech billionaires makes Adam Becker's More Everything ...

Photographer Mitch Epstein's years-long project highlights the majesty and vulnerability of old growth forests across the US ...