People who receive stem cell therapy within a week of their first heart attack have nearly a 60 per cent lower risk of developing heart failure years later

Playing recordings of a mother’s voice to premature babies may help their brains mature faster, according to the first randomised-controlled trial of this simple intervention

Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think

Nobel prize for medicine goes to trio for work on immune tolerance

Mathematicians have found a hidden 'reset button' for undoing rotation

20 bird species can understand each other's anti-cuckoo call

Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower back pain

Orcas are bringing humans gifts

Gravitational Waves Finally Prove Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Theorem

Vitamin D supplements may lower your level of one type of vitamin D

We’ve glimpsed the secret quantum landscape inside all matter

A single dose of LSD seems to reduce anxiety

We need to establish free internet access as a standalone human right

Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and may have shown intuition in action

DNA Cassette Tape Can Store Every Song Ever Recorded

CPR in space could be made easier by chest compression machines

Key genetic differences found in people with chronic fatigue syndrome

Scientists Redesign E. coli Genome with 101,000 DNA Changes for New Genetic Possibilities. The engineered E

Human eggs don't accumulate as many mutations with age as we thought

Astronomers have discovered the most massive black hole yet – more than 10,000 times as massive as the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way…

For the first time in 35 years, scientists have analysed a new type of all-carbon molecule at room temperature, without the extreme conditions usually required to stabilise this type of molecule

Light-based AI image generator uses almost no power

A Denisovan skull is upending the story of human evolution

Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes

Low Dose of Lithium Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice

Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point without melting

The pandemic may have accelerated the ageing of our brains by 5.5 months even before catching covid-19, based on structural changes to white and grey matter

Forests' vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon storage

Typos and slang spur AI to discourage seeking medical care

New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation

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