Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

In preparation for winter, the common shrew (Sorex araneus) shrinks its brain by 30 percent to conserve precious energy.

"Since the late 1800s, every generation has outperformed their parents."

The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South America, the pathogen's history goes much deeper than that.

During excavations at Sizewell C in Suffolk, our dedicated Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) field team unearthed rare wooden artefacts that shed new light on how prehistoric communities lived and…

Rare earth materials aren’t that rare.

Here, the authors use the diurnal upside-down jellyfish and the crepuscular starlet sea anemone as simple nerve net models to examine the potential evolutionary origins of sleep. They describe and define sleep patterns in these species, finding that sleep deprivation increases neuronal DNA damage and that sleep facilitates genome stability.