Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

A village buried by a landslide, the world’s largest tidal bore and the aftermath of ferocious storms and wildfires appear in our pick of images from environment stories this year ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference, scientific and business leaders of the quantum computing industry hailed "spectacular" ...

The detection of mercurial particles of light emanating from mice led to a flurry of interest in biophotons, a mysterious ...

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for ...

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It’s not entirely clear why animals respond to music, explain our readers, but it could remind them of the wild ...

If you’re aware of waking first and then decide to pee, broken sleep may be to blame. If the urge itself wakes you up, it’s ...

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

The ice has not recovered from a record low in 2007 – ice-free summers could soon become a regular feature across most of the Arctic Ocean Asteroid strikes and supervolcano eruptions may threaten us ...