The strategy for tracking bird flu in US dairy cattle falls worryingly short of what is needed to prevent the outbreak from widening and potentially spreading to humans ...

Two astronauts are about to set off for the International Space aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule. If all goes well, ...

Two astronauts will have to wait to set off for the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule, following a problem with the Atlas V rocket that caused the mission to be aborted bef ...

A quantum bit inspired by Schrödinger’s cat can resist making errors for an unprecedentedly long time, which makes it a ...

A robot that moves around by balancing on a ball could prove a better assistant for wheelchair users than humanoid robots ...

An implantable heart pump could help children with heart failure awaiting transplants forego bulky devices that require long hospital stays ...

Information contained within quantum objects gets scrambled when they interact. Physicists have now derived a speed limit for ...

A ribbon of electrodes could nestle in the gut to help diagnose gastrointestinal diseases linked to Parkinson’s ...

Head-bobbing seems to be a way for zebras to invite others to groom, graze or move together, suggesting sophisticated social ...

A surprise discovery has revealed that female stink bugs have a small indent on their hind legs that they use for cultivating ...

My colleagues call me a supervillain for trying to destroy the cosmos, but this kind of imaginative thinking isn't so far ...

An AI trained on the heart's electrical activity alerted physicians about patients at high risk of dying, significantly ...