This image could be hung in a gallery, but it started life as a tiny chunk of a woman’s brain. In 2014, a woman undergoing surgery for epilepsy had a tiny chunk of her cerebral cortex removed. This ...

A dramatically expanded geological map of the Bristol Channel has been unveiled, promising to guide the future of offshore ...

London, unsurprisingly, dominates the list of areas where it takes longest to save for a deposit, and other affluent boroughs ...

A survey of the southern sky has reconstructed how mass is spread across space and time, in the biggest study of its kind. The data provide striking evidence that dark energy, the force that appears ...

There's a galaxy's worth of data here. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The most detailed map of the Milky Way is still being ...

The most comprehensive cell "atlas" of the developing human heart to date was crafted using cutting-edge technology and includes never-before-seen cell types. When you purchase through links on our ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. ProPublica spent two years analyzing billions of rows of EPA ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map to date of the surface of 16-Psyche, an asteroid that scientists believe could hold clues to how planets formed in our Solar System. According to a ...

Certain proteins found in the human brain have long been known to be critical to controlling how brain cells communicate with each other. So-called GABA A receptors are proteins that control the flow ...