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The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in...
A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two leg...
SETI may have missed alien signals because of spac...
SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was s...
Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to ...
Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic...
How an intern helped build the AI that shook the w...
Chris Maddison was just an intern when he started working on the Go-playing AI that would eventually...
The moment that kicked off the AI revolution
It's been 10 years since Go champion Lee Sedol lost to DeepMind's AlphaGo. Has the technology lived ...
NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun fo...
NASA’s DART mission slammed into the small asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the impact slowed its orb...
Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any lif...
Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity...
Inflammation might cause Alzheimer's – here's how ...
Persistent inflammation in the gut, lungs and skin might lead to Alzheimer's disease, but lifestyle ...
The best new popular science books of March 2026
A new book from Rebecca Solnit, promising to bring us hope in these “difficult times”, is among our ...
Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean curren...
Models show that as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation gets weaker, the Gulf Stream wil...
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previo...
Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five...
The secret to guessing more accurately with maths
What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have...
Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and w...
Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Physicist Vladimir Brlja...
Möbius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and...
A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you...
Just one dose of psilocybin relieves symptoms of O...
Taking psilocybin – the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms – eased symptoms of obsessive compu...
Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years fou...
Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thoug...
Alzheimer’s may start with inflammation in the ski...
The Alzheimer’s field is being turned on its head as mounting evidence points to the disease beginni...
The secret of how cats twist in mid-air to land on...
An exceptionally flexible region of the spine enables falling cats to twist the front and back halve...
