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Radical new insights from the science of interoception - how the body senses its internal state - explain the real reasons we feel tired all the time, and how to re-energise

Hydrocortisone and testosterone are just two of 13 drugs and supplements that could lessen the impact of genes that accelerate brain ageing

Scientists have found a way to store hundreds of terabytes of data onto a tiny crystal, with plans to scale this up to a disc-sized device that can be compatible with modern computing.

New research reveals that our brains simplify complex social interactions by using basic mental "building blocks" or shortcuts. Researchers scanned the brains of people playing a simple team game and observed how partici...

Quantum entanglement is a fundamental phenomenon in nature and one of the most intriguing aspects of quantum mechanics. It describes a correlation between two particles, such that measuring the properties of one instantl...

A Jewish ritual bath known as a mikvah discovered in Ostia Antica is more than 1,500 years old.

Researchers have excavated a rare mammoth tusk discovered by a hunter on a West Texas ranch.

Few people could write so genially, even humorously, about our existential crisis. Henry Gee can, in his excellent new book The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

Whether social media sites police their platforms using humans or algorithms, content moderation isn't keeping users safe, says Jess Brough

In his Atomic series, artist James Stanford showcases "the spectacle and the horror" of growing up near a nuclear bomb testing site

Feedback would like to bring to readers' attention the retraction of five psychology articles by Nicolas Guéguen, including a "field study" into "bust size and hitchhiking"

For a long time objective measurement of subjective experience was considered impossible, but it is finally becoming a reality, promising a boost for health care and much more

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions yet to come - this time how, by the mid-21st century, many people were opting for a "nose job" that would supercharge their sense of smell. Rowan Ho...

A new study charts the genetics of skin, hair and eye color in Europe over 45,000 years.

Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin species living in western Europe around a million years ago

Scientists have struggled to explain why global temperatures have shot up in recent years, but ocean cloud cover has now emerged as a crucial piece of the puzzle

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires

As a step towards a useful and ultra-secure quantum internet, researchers have created an operating system that coordinates connected quantum computers, no matter what hardware they use

Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) researchers at TU Delft, QuTech, University of Innsbruck, INRIA and CNRS recently announced the creation of the first operating system designed for quantum networks: QNodeOS. The research,...

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in Western Europe.

NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution infrared snapshots, enabling astronomers to study some of the universe's biggest mysteries.

Our understanding of black holes, time and the mysterious dark energy that dominates the universe could be revolutionized, as new University of Sheffield research helps unravel the mysteries of the cosmos.