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Particles move in beautiful patterns when they hav...
A mathematical model of a particle that remembers its past so that it never travels the same path tw...
Ancient Maya burned their dead rulers to mark a ne...
In the foundations of a Maya temple, researchers found the charred bones of royal individuals – poss...
What is cloud seeding and did it cause the floods ...
Cloud seeding almost certainly did not play a significant role in the flooding on the Arabian penins...
Ancient marine reptile found on UK beach may be th...
The jawbone of an ichthyosaur uncovered in south-west England has been identified as a new species, ...
Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Ara...
Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thousands of years beneat...
How to see the Lyrid meteor shower and when is the...
Caused by debris from a comet thought to originate in the Oort Cloud, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks ...
Old-fashioned pessimism might actually help us fig...
Negative thinking is unpopular but it could drive more realistic efforts to limit harm from global w...
Skin-deep wounds can damage gut health in mice
We know there is some connection between skin and gut health, but many assumed the gut was the one c...
Turning plants blue with gene editing could make r...
Weeding robots can sometimes struggle to tell weeds from crops, but genetically modifying the plants...
Intel reveals world's biggest 'brain-inspired' neu...
A computer intended to mimic the way the brain processes and stores data could potentially improve t...
A new understanding of tinnitus and deafness could...
Investigations of the paradoxical link between tinnitus and hearing loss have revealed a hidden form...
A cicada double brood is coming – it's less rare t...
Up to 17 US states could be peppered with more than a trillion cicadas this spring, and though it ha...
Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yiel...
Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks...
Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain ...
We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, but ...
Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a w...
A serendipitous lab accident revealed that hibernating bumblebee queens can make it through days of ...
Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here...
Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhyt...
The man reinventing economics with chaos theory an...
Traditional economics makes ludicrous assumptions and poor predictions. Now an alternative approach ...
Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon sto...
Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5°C of warming assumes we can store vast amoun...
