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A new pill called baxdrostat is showing strong results in lowering dangerously high blood pressure in people who dont respond to standard treatments. In a large global trial, patients saw their blood pressure drop by nea...

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands of years-long enough ...

Saturns magnetic field isnt the smooth, symmetrical shield scientists see around Earth. Instead, its noticeably skewed, and researchers now think they understand why. By analyzing years of data from the Cassini spacecraf...

Researchers have identified the retinal source of high-resolution vision, proving that the eye sends isolated signals from individual cone cells to the brain. The study confirms that human visual acuity is limited only b...

A 34-country study reveals that the "exposome"-the combination of pollution, social inequality, and political context-is 15 times more predictive of brain aging than any single risk factor. The research calls for...

The APOE4 gene triggers a protein called Nell2, which shrinks neurons and causes brain hyperactivity. Lowering Nell2 levels reversed these effects in mice, offering a new target for early Alzheimer's intervention.

As Artemis II begins humanity's first return to the moon in over 50 years, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft shared their first message from deep space.

An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first theorised more than 30 years ago

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa - but identifying them in the fossil record is turning out to be surprisingly difficult.

Detecting a single particle of light is hard; detecting a single microwave photon is even harder. Microwave photons, the tiny packets of electromagnetic radiation used in current technologies like Wi-Fi and radar, carry ...

Fears that artificial intelligence could rise up to wipe out humanity are understandable given our steady diet of sci-fi stories depicting just that, but what is the real risk? Matthew Sparkes looks at what the experts s...

Can a handful of atoms outperform a much larger digital neural network on a real-world task? The answer may be yes. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, a team led by Prof. Peng Xinhua and Assoc. Prof. Li Zha...

Scientists have developed a novel approach to error correction that resulted in the highest-ever fidelity of entangled, logical qubits on a superconducting quantum processor.

Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) could shine brightly in the evenings after April 4, but only if it survives a very close encounter with the sun.

A new physics paper proposes modifications to Einsteins theory of relativity that could solve one of the biggest issues about our understanding of the Big Bang.

AI predicted that a forgotten breast cancer drug could be repurposed to treat many respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, and subsequent animal tests suggests it may be right

For those who want a little help composting, take a cue from James Woodfords experience raising worms - both the small colony of wrigglers he keeps in a sensible bin in his city garden and the dumpster-sized worm farm he...

One of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, the "black hole information paradox," might have finally found an elegant solution, and the answer could also reveal the origins of the mass of fundamental particl...

Quantum states are notoriously fragile, and can be destroyed simply through interactions, measurements, and exposure to their surrounding environments. In a new theoretical study published in Physical Review X, Rohan Mit...

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old specimen where no claw should exist. That detail revealed Megachelicerax co...

A new clinical trial suggests that what people eat could finally offer real relief for Crohns disease, a condition that has long lacked clear dietary guidance. Researchers found that a fasting-mimicking diet - involving ...

A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into the inner ear using...