A drug that kills cancer cells by puncturing them comes with an additional benefit: tests in mice suggest it reduces the growth of pain-sensing nerves around tumours ...

Sumit Paul-Choudhury is a writer, technologist and entrepreneur based in London. He is the founder of Alternity, a creative studio which explores alternative histories, social experiments and ...

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the world’s most extreme environments ...