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Human populations evolved in similar ways after we...
An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peopl...
Why is black rain falling on Iran and how dangerou...
US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities have caused black rain to fall on Tehran, but the black smoke f...
We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really...
Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about ...
Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but...
We’re learning that frailty can quietly arrive decades before old age, with some people in their 30s...
A daily multivitamin may slightly slow rates of ag...
Taking a multivitamin every day might slightly slow the rate of ageing, but the extent to which this...
'Singing' dogs may show the evolutionary roots of ...
Some Samoyeds adjust the pitch of their howls depending on the music being played, showing a form of...
The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in...
A single femur found in Bulgaria appears to represent an ape or early hominin that walked on two leg...
SETI may have missed alien signals because of spac...
SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was s...
Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to ...
Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic...
How an intern helped build the AI that shook the w...
Chris Maddison was just an intern when he started working on the Go-playing AI that would eventually...
The moment that kicked off the AI revolution
It's been 10 years since Go champion Lee Sedol lost to DeepMind's AlphaGo. Has the technology lived ...
NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun fo...
NASA’s DART mission slammed into the small asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the impact slowed its orb...
Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any lif...
Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity...
Inflammation might cause Alzheimer's – here's how ...
Persistent inflammation in the gut, lungs and skin might lead to Alzheimer's disease, but lifestyle ...
The best new popular science books of March 2026
A new book from Rebecca Solnit, promising to bring us hope in these “difficult times”, is among our ...
Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean curren...
Models show that as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation gets weaker, the Gulf Stream wil...
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previo...
Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five...
The secret to guessing more accurately with maths
What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have...
