For decades, researchers around the world had been working towards this goal – and now major advances are following in rapid succession. Vienna is now home to the world’s first nuclear clock that ...

A landmark survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed the once endangered species is thriving and stable in the Seychelles. The Aldabra giant tortoise ...

If you hate needles, music might make you feel better during a cannula insertion… but it has to be the right kind of music. Although different musical interventions have repeatedly been reported to ...

Jonathan has lived most of his life on the island of St Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, in grounds of Plantation House - the residence of the governor of St Helena.

Reconstruction of the extinct Herugavialis cairensis with the Great Sphinx and pyramids depicted in the background. Artwork by Karim Zanaty. A new species of extinct crocodile from Egypt has been ...

Most of us now carry in our pockets devices capable of running small AI chatbots. These chatbots have little safety oversight to ensure they don’t provide information and answers with the potential to ...

In this Policy Article, Alp Sungu and colleagues report on a large-scale randomized controlled trial evaluating the impacts of classroom phone restrictions on student outcomes in India. The findings ...

But it also pushes sunrise an hour later, leaving more people waking, travelling to school, and commuting to work, in darkness during the winter. Permanent standard time preserves more morning light ...

Mitochondria are small organelles within cells that play a central role in vital cellular processes, especially energy production. Mitochondria contain their own DNA molecules (mtDNA) that are ...

There was a significant drop-off in the solve rate for the group that had access to an AI tool, represented by the orange line, after the tool was removed. There was also a sharp increase in the rate ...

DNA analyses of ancient remains have revealed a previously unknown extinct bovine species that inhabited southern Siberia during and even before the last Ice Age. The extinct species was related to ...