PSYCHOLOGISTS have issued a warning over "grief tech" that could change how our brains process death. According to the New Scientist, artificially intelligent apps and…
The light-based chip can only perform selected tasks at present such as image recognition, but can operate much faster than current products on the market.…
U.S. scientists Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for "the discovery and synthesis…
The new entities, nicknamed ‘JuMBOs’, are neither stars nor planets. And they shouldn’t exist, researchers say. Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) have used…
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the Nobel prize in medicine for their work on messenger RNA technology, which enabled the development of…
Japanese scientists have found between 6.7 and 13.9 pieces of microplastic in each litre of cloud water tested. Researchers in Japan have confirmed that microplastics…
The 34th annual edition of an EU contest for teenage researchers wrapped up this past week with participants from Canada, Denmark, Poland and Portugal claiming…
Quick readIn short: New research has found Antarctic sea ice levels appear to be changing, with lower levels becoming the new normal.Scientists say warming ocean temperatures…
This summer was the hottest on record “by a large margin,” the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Wednesday, with a global average temperature of…
About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a…
LONDON — Their former colleagues and collaborators have turned on them; they are hounded by lobbyists and campaigners; and in some cases, the accusations have…
Surgeons hope that cross-species organ transplants could eventually help save lives of human patients. Surgeons in the United States have announced that a pig kidney…
This year’s sea ice minimum is 20 percent lower than the average over the last 40 years, researchers say. Sea ice in the Antarctic region…
DRINKING kombucha could help you slash blood sugar levels, a study shows. Type two diabetes patients who drank the trendy drink — that can cost…
Scientists have said they genetically engineered female fruit flies that can have offspring without needing a male, marking the first time “virgin birth” has been…
July is on track to become the world’s hottest month on record — with some scientists saying the planet may be experiencing its warmest period…
KETAMINE helps reduce depression in a fifth of difficult patients, a study shows. The drug — which Twitter boss Elon Musk reportedly microdoses to treat…
Astronomers say they have found the first evidence of a long-theorised form of gravitational waves that create a “background hum” rumbling throughout the universe. The…
As Europe embraces clean energy to fight climate change, a leading ecological economist argues for going beyond “green growth”. By HORIZON STAFF Almost 16 years…
A study has identified more than 5,000 new species living in deep-sea habitats in the Pacific Ocean in a region known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone…