An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by mathematicians working for the tech firm Open AI using a single prompt from an AI chatbot. The company has not revealed all the precise details ...

On 17 May the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an ongoing Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Centred on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, the ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals weather patterns from how planet WASP-94 A b filters the light of its parent star.

The size of the outbreak in its initial days is worrying researchers. The next few weeks will determine how large it grows, ...

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...

Since then, many more researchers have reported evidence for neurons changing how they respond to certain stimuli or ...

An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up ...

A star seen streaking across the cosmos was probably flung by the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way 1. Unlike most ...

With the arrival of ‘AI scientists’, it’s as well to remember that human wisdom, empathy and sheer messiness are as much part ...