What if time doesn't actually exist until something changes? Scientists at the University of Birmingham created a tiny "mini ...

Care to spruce up your daily drives with an ultra-cool Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 from the C8 generation? In that case, you probably know that there are numerous examples searching for new homes at any ...

Jumbo phages are bacterial viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes exceeding 200 kb. In this Review, Sam van Beljouw & Li Yuping examine the biology of these bacteriophages, highlighting their ...

How did the elephant become so big? Why do dolphins have such a huge brain? These are just some of the puzzles that Chris Packham hopes to solve in his new BBC TV series, Evolution. Each episode in ...

This week we explore why these collapsed stellar remnants are far more than just deep-space anomalies—they are actually some ...

Two independent teams of scientists have created the first functional clocks that can keep ultraprecise time using the nuclei ...

One reality of modern life is that people walking down a sidewalk tend to have their attention focused downward at their phones. Our lives exist inside those phones. But should they? Public clocks are ...

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually beat the accuracy of today’s best atomic clocks ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its electrons ...

Employees' biological clocks do more than determine when they reach for coffee; they fundamentally shape how, when and why ...