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UN space database aimed at easing global tensions ...
A list of global space launches designed to calm cold war tensions and promote transparency has been...
Global warming already causing crop losses of over...
Climate change is already having a big impact on crop yields, and the subsequent financial losses wi...
Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat's last the...
At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's l...
The sneaky maths trick for solving problems withou...
How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, c...
2026 eclipse: 5 citizen science projects you can c...
During the August 2026 solar eclipse, scientists will be rushing to gather data on the sun, but even...
Special relativity can warp chemical bonds – now w...
An experiment with a charged molecule of bismuth and carbon reveals how effects from Albert Einstein...
Resuscitated human retinas respond to light 10 hou...
Perfusing donor human retinas with blood and oxygen meant they continued to respond to light for up ...
Mathematics of thermodynamics is being rewritten a...
The laws of physics that concern heat and work could gain a firmer mathematical footing thanks to “g...
Injection halves risk of chromosome error common i...
Egg cells missing a key protein may be more likely to end up with the wrong number of chromosomes, b...
A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferr...
Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the b...
Seeding clouds with seawater could prevent a super...
A modelling study suggests marine cloud brightening could shade the eastern Pacific and reduce a glo...
Our fertility window could be extended by making o...
A drug that softens the ovaries helped mice and rats conceive more easily at an older age, and produ...
Occam’s razor has lost its edge. Can we sharpen ou...
Seeking out the simplest, most elegant explanations has served scientists well for centuries, but co...
Why Schrödinger's 1944 classic What Is Life? still...
Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influen...
Lambs born via IVF using highly immature eggs in m...
Lambs have been born using an experimental form of IVF that coaxes immature eggs to become mature on...
The allergy culprit histamine also boosts our memo...
A drug that raises levels of histamine – the chemical that causes allergy symptoms – in the brain bo...
How extreme heat affects the body – and the best w...
A short spell in a heat chamber at the University of Brighton showed Alec Luhn that his body is not ...
Peter Shor’s algorithm could break the internet – ...
Few people have invented an algorithm with the potential to spark a worldwide crisis, so why is quan...
