With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – ...

Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions carved into stone walls and pottery sherds from the ancient Roman Empire.

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before the appearance of feathered dinosaurs ...

By analysing videos of penalty kicks, a deep learning model was able to predict whether a shot would go to the goalkeeper’s ...

Claims that a small-brained hominin called Homo naledi buried its dead raise intriguing questions about ancient minds and why ...

A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was ...

Heatwaves have become more frequent as the world cleans up harmful aerosol pollution, unmasking more of the warming effects ...

People who follow a gluten-free diet in the hope of it calming their irritable bowel syndrome may actually be able to ...

The covid-19 pandemic changed our lives, and the world, in many ways - and now we are starting to understand its wider ...

For the more than 7 per cent of people over the age of 20 who don’t have any of their own teeth, the only option is ...

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...