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Low and no-alcohol drinks taste better than ever - but do they really help you cut down on boozing, and are they healthier than the real thing?

Figures gathered by New Scientist show that UK police forces have seized bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies worth more than £300 million during criminal investigations

For driving in the rain, it's preferable that the raindrops roll or bounce off the windshield instead of coating it or even freezing. A team of engineers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding why Alzheimer's disease progresses so rapidly in some people that they die within three years. The researchers found a link between strains of mi...

Standard chemotherapies may efficiently kill cancer cells, but they also pose significant risks to healthy cells, resulting in secondary illness and a diminished quality of life for patients. To prevent the previously un...

Very few proteins in the body have a change that makes them unique compared to the corresponding proteins in Neanderthals and apes. Researchers have now studied one such protein, glutathione reductase, which protects aga...

A new study that mapped the neural connections of newborns with two different kinds of brain injuries found the maps looked very different -- and were linked to significantly different developmental outcomes years later.

Very little is known about the identities of these child mummies.

A type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria was on the skin of hedgehogs long before humans started using the antibiotics that scientists thought created these superbugs.

The simultaneous occurence of extreme levels of ozone and particulate matter have increased significantly in the past decade due to wildfires in the western US

Two X chromosomes are actually one too many. Female mammalian cells hence switch off one of them - but only when the cells start to specialize into tissues. A research team has now discovered how cells 'count' their chro...

Researchers have developed a CRISPR-based assay that can sensitively and non-invasively detect a biomarker of acute kidney rejection in urine. This could someday help diagnose rejection earlier and without a biopsy.

Since its rebrand as "Meta", Facebook has been throwing its considerable weight behind the idea of an immersive virtual reality world. Here's everything you need to know

Why the inventor of a futuristic beauty product was banned from Instagram, plus affirming birds' existence and falling toast, in Feedback's weekly round-up

David Attenborough's latest BBC blockbuster, The Green Planet, reveals the surprisingly dramatic lives of plants

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest slow cinema offering, Memoria, ponders what we do and don't understand about the nature of reality

We typically try to make sense of paradoxes using cold logic. But if we ask what they tell us about human intuition, we can improve the way we understand the world around us, says philosopher Margaret Cuonzo

My new artificial friend, Woebot, helps me feel a little brighter - and evidence is mounting that it could lift your mood too, says Annalee Newitz

Putting on weight is often blamed on overeating, but new evidence is emerging that it is actually the other way round, says David S. Ludwig

This Leach's sea star was photographed spawning in synchronisation with other nearby individuals off the coast of Japan by Tony Wu

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