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Growing number of Earth's ‘vital signs’ endangered...
Key climate indicators from greenhouse gas levels to ice loss have reached record levels this year i...
Microscopic gears powered by light could be used t...
Gears just a few micrometres wide can be carved from silicon using a beam of electrons, enabling tin...
Nobel prize for physics goes to pair who invented ...
The 2024 Nobel prize in physics has gone to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries that e...
Certain quantum systems may be able to defy entrop...
A mathematical proof shows that some quantum states can resist nature’s tendency to disorder – but o...
The US is ramping up bird flu surveillance – but w...
Two more people in the US have tested positive for a bird flu virus called H5N1, highlighting the ne...
Slowing growth in life expectancy means few people...
While the 20th century saw rapid rises in average life expectancy at birth, more recent years have s...
Two injured comb jellies can merge to form one ind...
A pair of ctenophores, or comb jellies, can fuse their bodies together, merging their digestive and ...
The physicist who argues that there are no objecti...
Daniele Oriti’s pursuit of a theory of quantum gravity has led him to the startling conclusion that ...
Hackers can turn your smartphone into an eavesdrop...
Motion sensors in smartphones can be turned into makeshift microphones to eavesdrop on conversations...
Nobel prize for medicine goes to the pair who disc...
The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their w...
MDMA was hyped as a promising treatment for PTSD –...
For years, it seemed MDMA-assisted therapy would revolutionise PTSD treatment. But poor trial design...
Will semiconductor production be derailed by Hurri...
Hurricane Helene hit a quartz mine in North Carolina that is key to global semiconductor production,...
Why the problem of P versus NP is worth $1 million...
Mathematician Tom Crawford explains what P versus NP means – and what makes the problem so fiendishl...
Space may be filled with more antimatter than we c...
A detector on the International Space Station found signatures of unexpectedly abundant antimatter –...
Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids
Bacteria grown from carbon compounds in asteroids could be turned into a kind of nutritionally balan...
El Niño pattern can bring wet weather to UK one ye...
El Niño and La Niña cycles driven by ocean temperatures in the Pacific can influence weather in the ...
Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's ...
The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which h...
Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an 'astou...
Satellite images of the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands reveal that the area covered by veget...
