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Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of...
The ion tail of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could appear as a blue streak across the northern hemi...
Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-o...
Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed...
Do the 2024 Nobel prizes show that AI is the futur...
Two of the three science Nobel prizes in 2024 have been won by people working in AI, but does this m...
How hurricanes like Milton spawn tornadoes
Hurricanes often produce tornadoes that add to the destructive power of the storm – and climate chan...
Weight-loss drugs lower impulse to eat – and perha...
Popular weight-loss medications including Ozempic and Wegovy contain a drug that seems to decrease c...
The relentless push for productivity misconstrues ...
The latest neuroscience shows that, contrary to a lot of productivity advice, the drive to make the ...
Nobel prizes are still failing to celebrate the di...
The Nobel committees seem to have an unfortunate habit of overlooking women and Black people when it...
Your brain has individual neurons that respond to ...
The discovery that certain smells can be linked to specific neurons is helping us understand how the...
Once we pass 1.5°C of global warming, there is no ...
We might not be able to cool the world down again after overshooting the 1.5°C warming limit – and e...
Take control of your brain's master switch to opti...
The discovery that a small blue blob of neurons, the locus coeruleus, controls your mode of thinking...
This test could reveal whether gravity is subject ...
If gravity is a truly quantum entity, something as simple as measuring the strength of an object’s g...
Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for mastering str...
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for ...
Extreme hurricane season is here and it is fuelled...
Hurricanes have kept forecasters guessing this year, but with the arrival of intense storms like Hel...
Your toothbrush is teeming with hundreds of types ...
More than 600 types of viruses that infect bacteria have been found living on toothbrushes and showe...
See the stunning winners from the Wildlife Photogr...
An army of tadpoles and a stretching lynx are just some of the incredible photos winning accolades a...
Hot sauce taste test reveals how expectations shap...
Brain scans of people tasting squirts of hot sauce have revealed how positive and negative expectati...
AIs can work together in much larger groups than h...
It is thought that humans can only maintain relationships with around 150 people, a figure known as ...
A cave in France is revealing how the Neanderthals...
Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species...
