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Buildings that include weak points on purpose with...
If a building is hit with an earthquake or explosives, the entire thing can collapse – but a design ...
How overcoming negative attitudes to ageing can ma...
Ageism is pervasive, accepted and invisible. Stamping out this prejudice won’t just benefit society,...
Will sucking carbon from air ever really help tack...
The direct air capture industry got a boost last week with the opening of Mammoth, the largest plant...
Around half the world could lose easily accessible...
In coming decades, major groundwater sources may become economically unfeasible — this could raise f...
Frozen human brain tissue can now be revived witho...
Using a new approach, scientists have successfully frozen and thawed brain organoids and cubes of br...
Why did hominins like us evolve at all?
Animal life on Earth existed for over half a billion years before hominins hit the scene – a complex...
Huge jellyfish invasion could disrupt Arctic ecosy...
The Arctic could see a surge of jellyfish as climate change leads to warmer waters and less ice – a ...
One-day mental health workshop improves teenagers'...
The one-day courses were particularly beneficial to those pupils with worse mental health problems i...
Everything you need to know about semaglutide weig...
From how well they work to side effects such as hair loss, here’s the skinny on new weight loss inje...
Flu vaccine for children linked to pneumonia risk ...
The nasal flu vaccine may reduce cases of pneumonia illness in population over the whole flu season ...
We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space...
Gravitational waves can be lensed by massive galaxies so that they repeat, like an echo. Scientists ...
How could we give boring blobby galaxies a new, ex...
Galaxies could do with a few more arms or some decorative designs – on this episode of Dead Planets ...
Underwater data centres could be destroyed by loud...
Underwater data centres being installed off the coasts of China, the US and Europe could be disrupte...
Mystery of 'impossible' star resolved by three-bod...
A white dwarf star orbiting a sun-like star was thought to be impossibly small, but now astronomers ...
Oldest known human viruses found hidden within Nea...
Genetic analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal skeletons has uncovered the remnants of three viruse...
ChatGPT got an upgrade to make it seem more human
OpenAI's new ChatGPT model, called GPT-4o, provides more human-like interactions through a voice mod...
Ultrasound therapy could treat lung condition link...
Mice benefitted from ultrasound therapy for a rare lung condition – the treatment might work for com...
Sticky oil sprayed onto plants offers alternative ...
A sticky liquid made from vegetable oil could be sprayed onto plants to catch small pests such as th...
