It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on the idea that memories could arise from random fluctuations in entropy ...

Scientists discover 90 new species in Chinese fossils revealing how deep-ocean refuges preserved life after mass extinction ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

There was a moment in 2008 when Michael Mahony realised the ambitious project he'd signed up for years earlier might actually work. Looking under a microscope, a few tiny brown cells had begun to ...