The earliest spoken-word recordings of Louisiana Creole, a uniquely American language at risk of extinction, have been uncovered and analysed for the first time, shedding light on a tongue that define ...

How did the human brain become so much larger than that of our closest evolutionary relatives? Part of the answer lies not in new genes, but in how humans and non-human apes use the genes they share.

On an Ethiopian plateau, a bull called Achille formed an unusual relationship with a male donkey named Patroclo. They were observed spending time together, licking and rubbing against one another, an ...

After mathematics, AI is now coming for physics, writing papers on new particles, dark matter and the fine structure constant. OpenAI claims progress on a major physics probl ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in physics... but what actually happens when we measure a quantum system?

Turning a drum full of grains of different sizes sorts the grins by size and forms weird patterns. It's linked to granular ...

The uncanny precision of AI-generated language is its dead giveaway. You can tell an AI-generated story or image by just how ...

At any given time, your mouth is maintaining a delicate balance between hundreds of microbial species, which is why dentists ...

When people view sexualised images of women, they tend to remember them less well than sexualised images of men; a quirk of ...

In a black hole, time might end, or loop, or become a place in space, or become wildly unpredictable. And us physicists ...

A cancer survivor describes how immunotherapy helped him live to see his daughter graduate from high school. It is a moving ...