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Human cells have a resonant frequency – and it’s j...
Like a tuning fork, living human cells have frequencies at which they naturally vibrate – and now we...
Slower arm speed may be why older people fall more...
Younger people move their arms more quickly than their older counterparts when they slip, helping th...
Why tending your oral microbiome is the secret to ...
There are untold legions of viruses, fungi and bacteria living in your mouth. It now seems we can st...
The mathematically perfect table size for solving ...
When choosing the perfectly sized table to do your jigsaw puzzle on, work out the area of the comple...
Will 2024 see the world finally turning away from ...
A global agreement at the COP28 climate summit promised to begin "transitioning away" from fossil fu...
Have we found filaments of pure energy unleashed d...
Puzzling ancient galaxies and oddly shaped clusters suggest we have glimpsed cosmic strings travelli...
Hurricane damage to forests could release huge amo...
A study modelling the impact of a major hurricane in New England suggests carbon-offsetting schemes ...
Artificial pain sensors could help robots avoid da...
A system that detects forces and interprets which stimuli have the potential to cause harm could imb...
2024 will see a new weight-loss drug that trumps W...
Recently approved in the US, the weight-loss drug Zepbound will reach more people in 2024, with rese...
We might officially enter the Anthropocene epoch i...
Scientific bodies are due to make an official decision in the coming year about whether to declare a...
Hannah Ritchie: 'Eco-anxiety on its own is not tha...
Climate change and biodiversity loss may seem like insurmountable problems, but data scientist Hanna...
Probiotics helped reduce fatigue and memory loss f...
A study involving more than 450 people found that a mixture of prebiotics and probiotics alleviated ...
Mathematicians found a guaranteed way to win the l...
A pair of mathematicians studied the UK National Lottery and figured out a combination of 27 tickets...
Monkeys in Thailand took up stone tools when covid...
Long-tailed macaques on the island of Koh Ped appear to have learned a new way to forage when the pa...
An ancient whale claimed the title of heaviest ani...
Perucetus colossus lived 39 million years ago and weighed in at between 85 and 340 tonnes, meaning i...
Dark stars may be waiting in a mirror universe for...
Physicists have proposed that a mirror universe alongside our own might explain dark matter – and w...
Decades-old mathematical mystery about the Game of...
A mathematical game governed by simple rules throws up patterns of seemingly infinite complexity – a...
China started drilling ultra-deep holes in 2023 in...
A drilling project in the Taklamakan desert is aiming to reach more than 11,000 metres below Earth’s...
