SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Nearly everyone has experienced it: After a night of poor sleep, you don’t feel as alert as...

Justin RowlattEnvironment EditorBBCIt is 1am on 3 June. A near gale force wind is blasting into Scotland. Great weather for the Moray East and West offshore wind farms, you would have thought.The two farms are 13 miles off the...

Wikipedia is a treasured online resource that, despite massive changes across the web, has managed to remained truly great to this day. I,...

Quantum physics may be the secret ingredient for understanding cosmic objects that our telescopes cannot show us in detail,...

Many modern medicines, including insulin and some vaccines, are made from proteins — complex molecules that perform...

Critical public health surveys in the US are facing deep cuts after a series of layoffs hit government employees...

A new AI model is opening the black box of the leading artificial intelligence tool for predicting how proteins will interact with small molecules, such as drugs.The model, OpenFold3, which launched October 28, is a reconstruction of Google DeepMind’s...

Rachel Hagan and Mark Poynting,Climate ReporterSome research suggests hurricanes are generally moving more slowly than they used to. That means more storms like Melissa can sit, rather than sweep, over the land they hit.And some scientists believe that might...

The Trump administration’s widespread cancellation and freezing of clean energy funding is also hitting essential work to improve the nation’s power grid. That includes investments in grid modernization, energy storage and efforts to protect communities...

Asteroids spin. Most of them do so rather slowly, and up until now most theories of asteroid rotation have failed to explain exactly why. A new paper from Wen-Han Zhou at...