Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space Station

AI and Google Street View have created 'digital twins' of living trees in North American cities – part of a huge simulation that could help make urban tree planting and trimming decisions

You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars. Here’s what life would really be like on the Red Planet

An AI-assisted robot can listen to spoken commands and assemble 3D objects such as chairs and tables out of reusable building blocks

Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space weather just before the craft arrived has given us a misleading idea about the planet’s magnetic field

Seven major datasets used to train audio-generating AI models are three times more likely to use the words "man" or "men" than "woman" or "women", raising fears of bias

Hollywood has been imagining the impact AI might have on our lives for decades, but how accurate are these portrayals?

Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a possible shortcut for training robots faster and more accurately

In order to figure out how something came from nothing, we first need to explore the different types of nothing

Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren't exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous place to be during pregnancy

Oil and water can be separated efficiently by pumping the mixture through thin channels between two semipermeable membranes

The controversies surrounding football’s video assistant referee (VAR) system highlight our troubled relationship with uncertainty – and point to potential solutions

Data collected by the Zhurong rover and orbiting satellites suggests the existence of an ancient shoreline in the Utopia Planitia region of Mars

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to see if you could avoid a catastrophic impact

Nasal IgA1 autoantibodies against IFN-α are associated with better COVID-19 prognosis, including fewer symptoms and robust anti–SARS-CoV-2 immunity.

Alternating expression of cerebellar Aldoc/zebrin-II is lost in mouse models of polyglutamine ataxias and altered in the cerebella of patients with SCA7.

Anti–spike protein monoclonal antibodies alter endogenous humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in mice, nonhuman primates, and humans.

The R1441C-Lrrk2 mutation causes age-acquired immune exhaustion in mouse macrophages in a sex-dependent manner.

Blocking nociceptor CGRP to RAMP1 signaling in macrophages reduces endometriosis pain and lesion growth in a mouse model of the disease.