Staring at the ceiling while the clock blinks 3am doesn't only sap energy for the next day. A large, long-running US study of older adults has now linked chronic insomnia to changes inside the brain ...

Images taken of the Universe's most photogenic black hole over time reveal strange and exciting changes in its magnetic field.

This week in science: The world's second-largest diamond is being evaluated; the genetic secrets of a 117-year-old woman are ...

Would you willingly have your legs broken, the bones stretched apart millimetre by millimetre and then spend months in ...

Strangely sharp circles of radio waves in space have puzzled astronomers since their surprise discovery in 2019.

The shocking discovery of hematite on the Moon was made a few years ago. Hematite forms from the oxidation of iron, a process more commonly known as rusting. This mineral is found widely on Earth, but ...

A supermassive black hole in the far reaches of the Universe has been found guzzling down material at one of the fastest rates ever seen.

In 2023, neurologists at a memory clinic in China diagnosed a 19-year-old with what they believed to be Alzheimer's disease – ...

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843.