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

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

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

Water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to fall dramatically as the climate gets hotter, posing a major threat to economic ...

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 ...

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

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

Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars. Here’s what life would really be like on the ...

Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about ...