Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but columnist Jacklin Kwan finds that it’s not exactly ruled out in the quantum realm ...

While pilots are flying in a VR simulation, their brainwave patterns can be fed into an AI model that assesses how challenging they are finding a task and adjusts the difficulty accordingly ...

SpaceX says it wants to deploy an astronomical number of data centres in orbit to supply power for artificial intelligence, ...

Ants rely on scent to recognise their comrades, and when they are exposed to common air pollutants, other members of their ...

We have more satellites than ever before, but when they burn up they create a new kind of air pollution. Evidence is now revealing what effects this could have and how to tackle it ...

Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication ...

The most robust evidence to date shows that people with a type of lung cancer lived longer if they received immunotherapy before 3pm ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

Reports suggest that Elon Musk is eyeing up a merger involving SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, but what does he hope to achieve by ...

For the first time, researchers have found what seems to be a cloud of dark matter about 60 million times the mass of the sun in our galactic neighbourhood ...

Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and we're starting to ...