A landmark survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed the once endangered species is thriving and stable in the Seychelles. The Aldabra giant tortoise ...

Reconstruction of the extinct Herugavialis cairensis with the Great Sphinx and pyramids depicted in the background. Artwork by Karim Zanaty. A new species of extinct crocodile from Egypt has been ...

If you hate needles, music might make you feel better during a cannula insertion… but it has to be the right kind of music. Although different musical interventions have repeatedly been reported to ...

In this Policy Article, Alp Sungu and colleagues report on a large-scale randomized controlled trial evaluating the impacts of classroom phone restrictions on student outcomes in India. The findings ...

Most of us now carry in our pockets devices capable of running small AI chatbots. These chatbots have little safety oversight to ensure they don’t provide information and answers with the potential to ...

Jonathan has lived most of his life on the island of St Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, in grounds of Plantation House - the residence of the governor of St Helena.

Artist's concept of a brown dwarf. Brown dwarfs begin their lives like stars but they never accumulate enough mass to fuse atoms steadily at their cores and ignite with starlight. A Jupiter-sized ...

But it also pushes sunrise an hour later, leaving more people waking, travelling to school, and commuting to work, in darkness during the winter. Permanent standard time preserves more morning light ...

There was a significant drop-off in the solve rate for the group that had access to an AI tool, represented by the orange line, after the tool was removed. There was also a sharp increase in the rate ...

Sleeping alongside your dog probably doesn’t disrupt your sleep as much as you might think, according to new PLOS One study. Sleeping alongside your dog probably doesn’t disrupt your sleep as much as ...