An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate results because of higher ...

Just like humans, chimps have rhythm when drumming, which suggests that the trait evolved in our common ancestor ...

Extreme weather events are the most dramatic consequence of climate change, but there are many smaller ways it disturbs our ...

When huge scientific discoveries are made, you may hear that they are “statistically significant” or pass a threshold called ...

With season 2 unfolding, the science of the fungal horror drama is becoming shakier. It is a pity that the creators haven’t ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due to come crashing down on ...

The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or hospitalisation rates, but others have ...

Very large hail – hailstones more than 5 centimetres in diameter – poses a growing threat to Europe as the climate warms, ...

Cases of dementia doubled worldwide between 1990 and 2021, but more than quadrupled in China during the same period ...

The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are revealing links to poor cognition and weird behaviour ...

Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University of Zurich ...

Feedback's proposal that the genome of the blue whale could be used to communicate the scale of large datasets is knocked ...