Blood tests for Alzheimer’s may be rolled out within five years
Blood tests that look for signs of Alzheimer's disease are already used in research. A project is now testing their…
We keep finding water on Mars – here are all the places it might be
Researchers recently found a possible reservoir of liquid water more than 11 kilometres below Mars's surface – the latest in…
Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 – the heaviest ever
A method that helped create two atoms of the rare, super-heavy element livermorium may pave the way towards making the…
Rat populations in cities are booming as the planet warms up
Global warming is helping rats thrive in major cities around the world, with Washington DC seeing the fastest growth in…
Quantum computers are on the edge of revealing new particle physics
Computer simulations of high-energy particles are pushing the boundaries of what we can learn about the interactions that happen inside…
Crystal impervious to radiation could be used in spaceship computers
Putting two forms of semiconductor material called gallium oxide together seems to make it completely resistant to radiation
Stem cells treat diabetes without triggering immune response in mice
Genetically altered stem cells that are "invisible" to the immune system treated diabetes in mice without being wiped out by…
Bits of Saturn’s rings are falling onto the planet and heating it up
Observations from five spacecraft over 40 years have shown that as Saturn’s rings slowly disintegrate, the particles fall into the…
Cave art pigments show how ancient technology changed over 4500 years
The source of ochre minerals used by Stone Age humans in an Ethiopian cave changed over a 4500-year period, although…
Syphilis-like bacteria found in 2000-year-old human remains in Brazil
Four skeletons in a prehistoric burial site in Brazil contain the DNA of bacteria that are closely related to the…