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Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss at Arizona State University says rumours that the Advanced LIGO detector has picked up a signal have now been confirmed

We know bodily signals such as heartbeat play an active role in shaping our thoughts and emotions. Now it seems our voices have similar powers

The world's biggest car companies are now taking autonomous cars seriously – and that spells bad news for Google's hopes of leading the way

A signal sent to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last night received no response, suggesting the famous space lander has reached the end of its life

Cheaper fossil fuels encourage us to use more of them – higher emissions and lower investment in renewable energy could be the result

A powerful radio signal from space has puzzled astronomers for decades and led to talk of alien signals, but now there might be a more mundane explanation

A twist on a classic free will experiment suggests that impulsive people have less time to veto their own actions once the decision to act has been made

Microscope slides of ultra-thin carbon have allowed individual protein molecules to be imaged, which could one day help treat diseases like Alzheimer's

Eleonora's falcons in Morocco seem to pluck and imprison small birds in rocky crevasses so they can eat them later

If you want to share a pizza equally but certain people don't like the toppings in the middle, there's now a slicing formula to keep everyone happy