A London-based startup has created the world's first full-stack quantum computer using a standard silicon CMOS chip ...

Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

Archaeologists in Newfoundland have discovered seven tiny beads known as wampum that are made from seashells. They may be the ...

Researchers believe there's an upper limit to the temperature the human body can withstand — but many people could face ...

NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has taken flight, and will soon start a two-year mission to study Earth's mysterious "halo".

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

Fluorescent proteins can be turned into qubits within cells and could give us a deeper understanding of biology at the ...

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.

Researchers have described a whole new family of extinct crocodyliforms based on the fossilized remains of a single teenage ...

"You can't get a fifth image in the center unless something unusual is going on with the mass that's bending the light," ...

The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for ...