All the biggest science news stories of the week.

Q uantum computing company D-Wave has claimed to have achieved "quantum supremacy" by solving a "useful, real-world problem" ...

B ack in March 2013, an unusual and tragic story emerged about a man who was swallowed by a sinkhole in Florida. No trace of ...

A vaccine against norovirus, the dreaded “winter vomiting bug”, could be closer than you think: early clinical trials have ...

It was identified from a collection of small fossilized teeth found within the Ste. Genevieve Formation, a layer of limestone ...

A 2009 study examining the sleep/wake cycles of S. invicta found that the worker ants averaged a mammoth 253 sleep episodes ...

O ne-horned rhinoceroses are the subject of a new study of the differences in appearance, behavior, and evolutionary history ...

The northernmost gold mine from this period was located at Ghozza and operated during the second half of the third century ...

At the end of the study, all remaining participants said they were “satisfied” or “very satisfied”, and all believed they ...

Where does biodiversity come from? It’s a question many generations of biologists have spent their time thinking about.” ...

While that may sound like bad news, the team suggests an obvious solution: booster shots. To go back to the physical health ...

A total of 866 new marine species have been discovered in just 16 months by the Nippon Foundation–Nekton Ocean Census as they ...