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Yellowstone supervolcano contains twice as much me...
There is more melted rock under Yellowstone Caldera – a volcano in Wyoming – than was previously est...
Owl-like engravings from Copper Age may have been ...
Slate plaques from about 5000 years ago engraved with images of what look like owls may have been ch...
Ancient megatsunami on Mars traced to the crater w...
Before Mars dried up, an asteroid slammed into one of its oceans and caused a colossal megatsunami, ...
Newly discovered dinosaur has a streamlined body l...
An analysis of a fossil has revealed a new species of dinosaur named Natovenator polydontus. It was ...
Flying squirrels carve nuts to store them securely...
Buried nuts would quickly rot in the tropical rainforests of Hainan Island, so flying squirrels have...
China's failure to vaccinate makes giving up on ze...
Widespread protests against China's zero-covid policy have led the country to ease some restrictions...
Antibiotics encoded in Neanderthal DNA could help ...
A search of the ancient DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans has revealed coding for extinct bacteria-...
Sperm-blocking vaginal gel could be a reliable con...
A gel that has prevented almost all of 1 billion sperm getting past the cervix in sheep could become...
Microfibres that pollute the seas are floating hom...
Almost 200 species of bacteria, including one that can cause food poisoning, were found on microfibr...
Plastic 'Pac-Man' moves using water ripples
A simple device made of plastic and rubber can be controlled using ripples in water to move around o...
COP15: What to expect at the biggest biodiversity ...
After a two-year delay, the COP15 summit will convene in Montreal to hammer out an agreement to addr...
Ant pupae produce a nourishing liquid food for lar...
Several species of ant have been observed producing a liquid while in a pupal stage that is consumed...
A quantum computer has simulated a wormhole for th...
Researchers have used Google's Sycamore quantum computer to simulate a simplified wormhole for the f...
Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the stor...
A skull bone from 67 million years ago reveals that ancestors of modern birds had jointed beaks, not...
Star ripped up by black hole is one of the brighte...
A star orbiting a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy was ripped apart in a ti...
The strange quantum effects of twisted, graphene-l...
Superconductivity, fractional charges and magnetic vortices are just some of the weird quantum pheno...
Alzheimer's drug lecanemab slows cognitive decline...
The drug lecanemab slowed the rate of cognitive decline among people with early Alzheimer's disease ...
An mRNA vaccine protects mice against deadly plagu...
The bacterium Yersinia pestis causes frequent outbreaks that kill people, but a new vaccine based on...
