The UK government's Redbox AI chatbot is being used by thousands of civil servants, but a lack of transparency about exactly ...

An open-air site in Austria occupied by humans during the coldest part of the last glacial period may have been dedicated to hunting reindeer for pelts, showing how people adapted to extreme ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

Mounting evidence suggests there might be two separate types of the world’s fastest-growing neurological condition. Can this ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

Text-generating AIs such as ChatGPT can be used to hide encrypted messages inside fake conversations, which could help people ...

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumonia, and its effect on ...

Cholera should no longer exist, yet it kills thousands of people every year. New analysis from international group WaterAid ...

A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking ...

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

Scientists have found scour marks on the seabed made by giant icebergs about 18,000 years ago, and they could offer clues to ...