The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1.

The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...

The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is Canada’s largest integrated cancer research, teaching, and treatment centre, one of the top cancer research centres in the world and is one of the University ...

Stimulating certain brain cells in mice seems to ease anxiety without causing hallucination-like effects. Targeting just the ...

David Posner hopes that his teaching and outreach programmes could apply to other low- and middle-income countries.

Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the ...

Microorganisms on a sample of asteroid are clearly terrestrial — despite strict protocols to avoid contamination.

Six years of observations show that play encourages group efforts and eases tension between adult chimpanzees.

AI-enabled research might cause immense harm if it is used to design pathogens with worrying new properties. To prevent this, ...

Ranga Dias, a once bright star in the field of superconductivity who has been enmeshed in a public scandal for the past two years, is no longer employed by his university. Exclusive: official ...

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Since a schizophrenia drug, the first in decades with an innovative mechanism of action, gained US regulatory approval in ...