NASA’s Perseverance rover found complex carbon compounds and microbe-like patterns in 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rocks from Jezero Crater, a former lakebed. …

SpaceX's IPO raised $75 billion and briefly made it the fourth most valuable U.S. corporation with a $2 trillion valuation, despite not being profitable. Its r…

From the age of legal adulthood to the concept of "profound autism", policy-makers are turning to neuroscience to help shape laws and policies, but the science…

Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants by making cooling water too warm and driving up demand, causing blackouts. This exposes weaknesses in Europ…

All 19 Homo naledi skeletons found in South Africa's Rising Star cave belong to females, challenging prior assumptions about early human behavior and group dyn…

Philosophers Schwitzgebel and Pober argue consciousness could exist in forms we can’t comprehend, not just human-like brains, challenging how we search for ali…

Fluctuating oestrogen levels during the menstrual cycle increase brain drug delivery by up to 50% in female mice, suggesting dosing precision may need adjustme…

Scientists identified a specific group of thalamic neurons that act as a distraction filter in mice, whose activation restored focus when interrupted. This dis…

Extreme heat impairs animals' cognitive abilities, causing aggression and poor decision-making, which threatens their survival. As climate change intensifies h…

Ukraine destroyed a key railway bridge in Crimea, cutting the last major rail link to southern Ukraine and crippling Russia’s ability to supply troops and weap…

Northern Britain's summer sun often fails to raise vitamin D levels in older adults and people with darker skin, challenging the belief that sunlight alone can…