SCIENCE
A lost disease emerges from 5,500-year-old human remains
A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and rel...
Scientists just cracked the hidden rules of cancer evolution
Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guidi...
Alzheimer’s may trick the brain into erasing its own memories
Alzheimer’s may destroy memory by flipping a single molecular switch that tells neurons to prune their own connections. ...
UK to join major wind farm project with nine European countries
For the first time, the new wind farms will be connected to more than one country through undersea cables....
New DNA analysis rewrites the story of the Beachy Head Woman
A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate....
Ancient people carried a wild potato across the American Southwest
Long before farming took hold, ancient Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest were already shaping the future of a...
Scientists twist tiny crystals to control electricity
Researchers have developed a technique that allows them to carve complex three dimensional nanodevices directly from sin...
NASA is set to send astronauts around the Moon again
NASA is moving into a new phase of space exploration, with major progress across human spaceflight, science missions, an...
Brain waves could help paralyzed patients move again
People with spinal cord injuries often lose movement even though their brains still send the right signals. Researchers ...
This small soil upgrade cut locust damage and doubled yields
Locust swarms can wipe out crops across entire regions, threatening food supplies and livelihoods. Now, scientists worki...
Nature loss is a national security risk, intelligence group warns
The degradation of ecosystems around the world threatens UK food security, a long-awaited report says....
UK homes to get £15bn for solar and green tech to cut energy bills
The government has announced the details of its long-awaited Warm Homes Plan which promises to cut energy bills....