Coronavirus patients declared recovered who later test positive for the disease are still expelling dead lung cells rather than getting a new infection, the World Health Organisation (WHO) told AFP on Wednesday.

Freely giving away money to thousands of people with no strings attached was always going to make Finland's 2017 Basic Income experiment a focus of study for sociologists, psychologists, politicians and economists for years to come.

An international team of scientists has found new evidence of rivers that flowed on the surface of Mars billions of years ago — a discovery that could give us new insights into the search for ancient life on the Red Planet.

A team of research physicists at Princeton University may have found a new way to control fusion reactions inside doughnut-shaped tokamak reactors — an incremental step towards making fusion energy, the 'holy grail of energy production', a r

Diagram of a proposed network of solar-sailing "statite" craft, which would look for interstellar objects zooming through the solar system and potentially allow up-close study of such visitors. (Image: © Diagram of a proposed network of solar-sailing "statite"…

Businesses from Milan in Italy to Roswell in Georgia have begun opening up after weeks and months of coronavirus-induced shutterings.

In November 2019, before the world had even heard of the novel coronavirus, 14 children on the Pacific island nation of Samoa were hooked up to ventilators. They were each fighting for their lives against a different, but also highly infectious vir

A class of stars that jangled out discordant frequencies across the galaxy have just been untangled. Using data collected by NASA's TESS space telescope, astronomers have finally found a rhythm in the pulsations of strange, young stars.

A team of scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has developed a brain implant that allows both blind and sighted participants "see" the shape of letters.

Our planet wears its magnetic field like an oversized coat that just won't sit comfortably. All that sliding means the north magnetic pole is destined to move ever closer to Siberia's coastline over the coming decade.

Quantum entanglement – that strange but potentially hugely useful quantum phenomenon where two particles are inextricably linked across space and time – could play a major role in future radar technology.