The AI Con by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna wants to expose the hype generated by large artificial intelligence companies, but ...

A group of white-faced capuchins on a remote island have started stealing infants from another primate species, and ...

There are a range of competing views on whether smartphones and social media are harmful to adolescents, and an attempt to settle the debate has instead sparked more disagreement ...

A declining ability to detect scents is linked to conditions including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. But restoring our most neglected sense might not only reduce cognitive decline – studies also show i ...

Using human cells, researchers were able to create a novel cervix-on-a-chip model to study how the vaginal microbiome affects ...

Mounting concerns about Brazil's approach to the COP30 climate summit have observers asking whether the meeting will be able ...

Dark matter is thought to only interact through gravity, which is why it is so difficult to spot, but now evidence is growing for a type of dark matter that can also stick to itself ...

At the COP30 climate summit in November, a group of countries led by Brazil will launch a bold new initiative that will pay tropical countries to maintain forest cover. Instead of relying on ...

Waste from old landfill sites is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode coastlines - and some of it is toxic ...

An analysis of compounds in chilli peppers has revealed chemicals that seem to negate their heat-giving capsaicinoids. This ...

Despite setting a global temperature record, 2023 might have been even hotter were it not for the cooling effect of smoke ...

Women were historically excluded from health studies on the grounds that hormone fluctuations introduced "noise" into the ...