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Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions...
An annual accounting of CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and land use change finds no sign em...
Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field lik...
Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can al...
Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind...
Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the...
Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees gro...
AI and Google Street View have created 'digital twins' of living trees in North American cities – pa...
Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without eve...
Droplets of fluid have been known to hover above a hot surface, but a new experiment suggests the sa...
Next Mauna Loa eruption could be forecast months i...
An analysis of crystals in lava from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa has revealed an unknown magma re...
A new life on Mars? Expect toxic dust, bad vibes a...
You might have heard about plans to establish a self‑sustaining city on Mars. Here’s what life would...
This robot can build anything you ask for out of b...
An AI-assisted robot can listen to spoken commands and assemble 3D objects such as chairs and tables...
SpaceX targets Starship flight next week – just a ...
SpaceX is preparing for the sixth test flight of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket. Next we...
Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse ...
Campaigners are calling for stricter controls on rodenticides after finding that birds of prey in En...
How a single gopher restored a landscape devastate...
Never underestimate what a single gopher can achieve in a day: one of the burrowing mammals helped b...
Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700...
Most assessments of global warming use 1850-1900 as a baseline, but researchers have now established...
Lights on surfboards and wetsuits could deter shar...
Experiments show that illuminating the underside of a decoy seal reduces attacks by great white shar...
Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time f...
Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, giving us our only up-close look at the planet – but unusual space...
Is the climate change food crisis even worse than ...
Extreme weather and a growing population is driving a food security crisis. What can we do to break ...
Audio AIs are trained on data full of bias and off...
Seven major datasets used to train audio-generating AI models are three times more likely to use the...
Any delay in reaching net zero will influence clim...
Reaching net-zero emissions is essential for halting climate change - but even after we achieve this...
AI helps robot dogs navigate the real world
Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics...
