An uptick of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) cases in China has raised concerns over another pandemic, which appear to be ...

Social media companies have long struggled with moderating the behaviour of billions of users, and now it seems they are ...

The tale of Fermat's last theorem took hundreds of years and included tantalising twists, disappointing errors and a ...

We have long suspected that music has restorative qualities, but Daniel Levitin is now providing rigorous evidence that it ...

From carbon emissions to the share price of videoconferencing firm Zoom, these graphs tell the story of how the covid-19 ...

Industrial waste can make rudimentary batteries. That's likely no good in electric cars etc, but could be ideal for stashing ...

Male flies have been genetically engineered to produce poisonous proteins in their seminal fluid, a technique that could be ...

A person in Louisiana who became severely ill with a bird flu virus known as H5N1 in December has passed away from the ...

Wastewater treatment plants in the US may discharge enough “forever chemicals” to raise concentrations in drinking water ...

Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by pollution from metal smelting during the Roman era ...

Ian Hamilton is associate professor of addiction at the University of York, UK. He investigates the impact drug use has on ...

Throat vibrations made by people who find it difficult to speak, such as after a stroke, can be analysed by AI and used to ...