Science & Technology

'M3GAN's smash success is the tipping point for the return of low-brow horror — and audiences are there to embrace it.

XBB.1.5, an offshoot of the coronavirus’s omicron variant, can hide from parts of the immune system, but vaccines and some treatments still work.

A black hole almost 900 million light years away consumes part of an orbiting star every time it gets too close.

XBB.1.5 is the most highly transmissible version we've seen of the Covid-19 virus. It's also very good at evading immune defenses.

Human presence exerts complex effects on the ecology of species, which has implications for biodiversity persistence in protected areas experiencing...

This cohort study assesses whether drugs with the most direct-to-consumer television advertising represent advances over existing treatments.

Long COVID is an often debilitating illness of severe symptoms that can develop during or following COVID-19. In this Review, Davis, McCorkell, Vogel and...

Analysis of internal climate projections shows Exxon scientists knew the harm of burning fossil fuels, while firm’s executives played down the risk.

We often don't know the causes of preterm birth – but analysing metabolic substances in the vaginal microbiome may be a way to predict the risk of premature...

High levels of HDL cholesterol don’t appear to protect against heart disease, while harm from low levels may depend on race, a study reports.

Neural decoding models can be used to decode neural representations of visual, acoustic, or semantic information. Recent studies have demonstrated neural...

Measurements of a blast of radio waves passing through our galaxy have shown that the Milky Way's proportion of visible matter is 40 per cent lower than the...

The new ShadowCam instrument has sent its first image back from lunar orbit, showing the inside of an area of the moon that never gets any direct sunlight.

Coastal floods caused at least 12 electric vehicle fires during Hurricane Ian, but a new breakthrough alternative could prevent that hazard.

US authorities are reportedly considering a ban on new gas stoves in light of research claiming they are linked to one in eight cases of childhood asthma.

Circadian clock genes in almost all our cells follow regular 24-hour patterns, but can be disrupted by irregular sleep patterns and prolonged light exposure....

On Earth, methylated gases are produced by organisms cleaning up their environment — and by little else. The same might be true on some exoplanets.

When will the killer doll twirl back onto our screens?

An analysis of nearly 5.5 million scientific papers has found that, on current trends, the proportion of women authoring research won't reach parity with men...

Businesses face many challenges in defending against constant cyberthreats, including a lack of resources (personnel and skill sets), budget, and proper...

In a small study, cyclic sighing - inhaling slowly and then taking another short breath in to fully inflate the lungs, before breathing out for as long as...

The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) is creating a map of nearly 80% of the radio sky. As...

Astronomers have a found an innovative way to observe neutron stars after they crash but before they become black holes.

Scientists have developed a new Artificial Intelligence, or AI, technique using radar images from Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission, to reveal...

Electric vehicles have been available for decades. Now they’ve finally become mainstream.

Wi-Fi devices acknowledge each other, even when not connected to the same network, and hackers can exploit this to drain their batteries.

Wearable bioelectronics are gaining extraordinary attention due to their capabilities to achieve continuous monitoring of human health status. However,...

Using satellite observations over the recent two decades, the authors quantify the biophysical impact of earth greening on land surface temperature and show...

Quadrupolar nuclear magnetic relaxometry senses electrical fluctuations around nuclei, but their microscopic interpretation remains elusive. Here, the...

Cutting emissions remains undeniably important in a warming world, but the role of invention to help avert disaster is also worthy of attention.

To preserve humankind’s diverse bacteria, scientists are harvesting, freezing, and storing poop from around the world.

A van der Waals crystal, niobium oxide dichloride, with vanishing interlayer electronic coupling and considerable monolayer-like excitonic behaviour in the...

'Babylon 5' is leaving HBO Max soon. Here's the ultimate cheatsheet to binge the whole series quickly.

Maternal metabolic disturbances and diet may influence long-term infantile neurodevelopment. We investigated whether maternal gestational diabetes mellitus...

A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

By elevating the importance of women’s health, we can deliver more inclusive insights, more accessible solutions and much better care for women worldwide.

Long-range wireless data links can be created by combining a software-defined digital signal processing back end with on-chip high-power terahertz signal...

Photographer Jasper Doest had to strap a camera to the helmet of another skydiver, who had about 30 seconds to use the remote between his teeth.

Electric fields typically break symmetry when applied as a stimulus to materials. Here, by forming a superlattice of BiFeO3 and TbScO3, it is shown that an...

Opportunistic bacterial pathogen species frequently colonise the human gut as a normal part of the ecosystem but strain-level colonisation and competition...

Sohan Rudra*, Saksham Goel*, Anirban Santara*, Claudio Gentile*, Laurent Perron, Fei Xia, Vikas Sindhwani, Carolina Parada, Gaurav Aggarwal Google.

Tidy up your phone and get back to basics.

With increasing global population and climate change, regenerative agriculture looks to grow more food with less environmental impact.

The platform's meltdown has shed light on the steep challenge of preserving social media data. But not everything is worth saving.

You don’t need a degree in horticulture to help your indoor garden grow, just a few key pieces of gear.

On the trail of AlphaBay's mastermind, a tip leads detectives to a suspect in Bangkok—and to the daunting task of tracing his millions in cryptocurrency.

Molecular and functional abnormalities of astrocytes have been implicated in the etiology and pathogenesis of schizophrenia (SCZ). In this study, we examined...

This benchmark report aims to compare the performance of two intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions offered by Automation Hero and ABBYY in.

Virtual YouTubers, or streamers who use digital avatars, are part of a growing creative community. And it's not as hard (or costly) as you might think.

Machine learning shows that even existing batteries can charge safely and speedily if you treat them right.