Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more harm than good ...

A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we know how this baffling evolutionary quirk ...

Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical language, rather than translating back and forth ...

Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could ...

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

A classic study found that people can fail to notice a gorilla when they are focusing on something else, but new experiments ...

The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries ...

Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acute pain, which could make them a promising ...

Satellite images reveal that when conditions are right, the pollution from industrial hotspots can cause snow to fall ...

Selection for bigger tomatoes has made the fruits less sweet, but now it has been shown that gene editing can make them ...

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Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...