SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

John Martinis is a hardware guy. He prefers the nitty-gritty of doing physics in the lab over the idealised...

AI systems are far better than people at spotting deepfake images, but when it comes to deepfake videos, humans may still have the edge. That’s the surprising twist from a new study that pits people against machines in the...

What if ultrasound imaging is no longer confined to hospitals? Patients with chronic conditions, such as hypertension...

I didn’t visit a dentist for years in my 20s. I periodically considered setting up an appointment but relocated so frequently that it never quite happened. When, after years of procrastination, I finally wound up in the dentist’s chair,...

Watching the Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the ice at breakneck speeds and with grace.When the first Olympic Winter Games were held in...

As Winter Storm Fern swept across the United States in late January 2026, bringing ice, snow and freezing temperatures, it left more than a million people without power, mostly in the Southeast.Scrambling to meet...

Available for over a yearMost of us have Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) hiding in our bodies.You may know it as the cause of glandular fever or “kissing disease”.But more research is suggesting that it can turn our immune...

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will connect with students in Pennsylvania to answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 5, and will...

Common air pollutants like ozone and nitric oxide can change the way ants smell, prompting their nest-mates to attack...

Delivering cancer immunotherapy earlier in the day really could extend survival, according to the first randomised-controlled trial into how...