The world’s smallest temporary pacemaker is self-powered, optically controlled and dissolves when it’s no longer needed ...

Founded in 2020, CISM moved into a new, state-of-the-art £50m building in 2023 and is now in its first full year of operation. Meredith explains how technological innovation and skills training at ...

Harvard University is the suing the US government over its plan to block up to $9bn of government research grants to the institution ...

A series of spectacular images of the cosmos has been released to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in space ...

The presence of disorder causes worms to speed up, not slow down – a surprising result with applications in robotics ...

How it works Artist’s impression of how an ultrafast disruption of superconductivity in a YBCO thin film triggers an abrupt ...

Supercritical water also shows promise as an environmentally friendly solvent for industrial processes such as catalysis, and ...

Researchers in Canada are developing a low-cost orthovoltage radiotherapy system for use in low-resource and geographically remote regions ...

A new retinal stimulation technique called Oz enabled volunteers to see colours that lie beyond the natural range of human vision. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, Oz works by stimulating ...

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) enable the flow of information between the brain and an external device such as a computer, ...

A proposed experiment that would involve trapping atoms on a two-layered laser grid could be used to study the mechanism ...

A quarter of a century after he started writing his “Critical Point” column, Robert P Crease reveals his underlying message ...