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To capture the clearest and most direct images of a “Wigner crystal”, a structure made entirely of electrons, researchers used a special kind of microscope and two pieces of graphene unusually free of imperfections

An enzyme in a cyanobacterium can take the unusual form a triangle containing ever-smaller triangular gaps, making a fractal pattern

Artificial intelligence is taking on some of the hardest problems in pure maths, arguably demonstrating sophisticated reasoning and creativity – and a big step forward for AI

Inflamed gum tissue may allow bacteria in the mouth to enter the bloodstream, which could affect the heart

Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 Turing award for his work on understanding how randomness can shape and improve computer algorithms

Adding more masts could reduce the overall energy use of phone networks by two-thirds and boost handset battery life by 50 per cent

Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. He proposed the particle that gives other particles mass – now named the Higgs boson and discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012

An oral vaccine in the form of a pineapple-flavoured spray prevented recurrent urinary tract infections in 53.9 per cent of clinical trial participants

An excavation on an island in the Coral Sea shows that Indigenous Australians were producing ceramics long before the arrival of Europeans

The expansion rate of the universe, measured by the Hubble constant, has been one of the most controversial numbers in cosmology for years, and we seem at last to be close to nailing it down

If your life feels aimless and joyless, you may be languishing, says psychologist Corey Keyes — who reveals how it differs from depression and what you can do to flourish instead

We have enough genetic material to bring back the northern white rhino, but doing so won’t be easy

Random-seeming hand gestures seem to help people control prosthetic hands better than ones that mimic their ordinary muscle movements

A new way of interpreting the elusive mathematics of quantum mechanics could fundamentally change our understanding of reality

Researchers have used quantum light to create a magnetic field with a strength that is measured in imaginary numbers

Releasing 1 gigatonne of ground-up olivine on coastal shelves each year could help lower atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, find researchers, but questions remain over the ecological impact

Every month since April 2023 has been the hottest on record, as climate continues its record-breaking streak

On 8 April, a total solar eclipse passed over Mexico, the US and Canada – here are some of the most stunning images

An AI program can learn from smartphone users' behaviours in order to send timely pop-up reminders about when to close attention-grabbing apps. The system effectively reduced how often people opened apps such as TikTok

People with long covid after a serious covid-19 infection have raised levels of many immune molecules in their blood. Better understanding how these molecules can vary could lead to more targeted treatments