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CAR T-cell therapy makes ageing guts heal themselv...
Immune cells are most commonly engineered to kill cancers, but now, scientists have shown the techni...
Early humans may have begun butchering elephants 1...
A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may ...
The first quantum fluctuations set into motion a h...
The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the sp...
Passwords will be on the way out in 2026 as passke...
The curse of having to remember easily hackable passwords may soon be over, as a new alternative is ...
Jellyfish sleep about as much as humans do – and n...
The benefits of sleep may be more universal than we thought. We know it helps clear waste from the b...
The secret weapon that could finally force climate...
An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwave...
The first commercial space stations will start orb...
For nearly three decades, the International Space Station has been the only destination in low Earth...
US will need both carrots and sticks to reach net ...
Modelling suggests both carbon taxes and green subsidies will be necessary to decarbonise the US eco...
Northern Greenland ice dome melted before and coul...
The Prudhoe ice dome disappeared during a warm period 7000 years ago. Global warming could cause sim...
What if the idea of the autism spectrum is complet...
For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it co...
Weird clump in the early universe is piping hot an...
A galaxy cluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how...
El Niño was linked to famines in Europe in the ear...
A study of 160 European famines between 1500 and 1800 shows that El Niño weather events led to the o...
The best new popular science books of January 2026...
A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond,...
2026 will shed light on whether a little-known dru...
The US government is approving the drug leucovorin to address rising rates of autism, despite limite...
A strange kind of quantumness may be key to quantu...
Researchers at Google have used their Willow quantum computer to demonstrate that "quantum contextua...
The best new science fiction books of January 2026...
Big hitter Peter F. Hamilton has a new sci-fi novel out this month – and Booker winner George Saunde...
Ghostly particles might just break our understandi...
An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint ...
Was our earliest ancestor a knuckle-dragger, or di...
Did Sahelanthropus, which lived 7 million years ago, walk on two legs like a modern human? It's comp...
