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Robot gardener grows plants as well as humans do b...
A vegetable-growing trial has pitted expert human gardeners against an AI-powered robot – both produ...
Alligators create hotspots for life by digging hol...
Alligator ponds have a greater diversity and abundance of plants and animals compared with the surro...
Experimental treatment could work against prion di...
Prion diseases are invariably fatal, but an experimental genetic treatment has dramatically extended...
We know now what happens in our brain to make us s...
Researchers have identified a brain circuit that causes mice to show signs of being afraid when high...
Could your gut bacteria influence how intelligent ...
People who are genetically predisposed to have higher levels of Fusicatenibacter bacteria scored bet...
Couples collide with fewer people on walks than pa...
An analysis of over 800 hours of footage from busy pedestrian areas in Japan found that pairs of peo...
Wiggly worms and quantum objects follow surprising...
An equation developed to describe the motion of undulating animals and robots looks like the famous ...
Diabetes drug metformin may cut the risk of long c...
Metformin, which is commonly used to control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, was ...
Losing a leg in youth changes how male harvestmen ...
Harvestmen can shed legs when attacked by predators, but this survival tactic may have lifelong rami...
Astronomers are using a new supernova to search fo...
If any alien civilisations have spotted the new supernova SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel galaxy, they ma...
Fire Weather review: Why Canada’s wildfires will o...
John Vaillant chronicles the most destructive fire in Canada’s history, and explores what lies ahead...
Has anyone really seen evidence of aliens visiting...
The hunt for extraterrestrial spacecraft has generally been scattered and disorganised, but now NASA...
Robotic dog spots invasive fire ant nests better t...
Robotic dogs do better than humans at identifying nests of invasive fire ants. The robots could be u...
Raw sewage floods UK rivers with faecal bacteria a...
Water samples from the river Ouseburn in Newcastle upon Tyne during a rainstorm reveal high levels o...
Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated for...
A drop of very cold liquid helium can be made to float for an indefinitely long time using strong ma...
Ukraine Kakhovka dam explosion: Flooding is devast...
Thousands of people have been evacuated due to the breach of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine. In a brief...
Taurine supplements extend lifespan and health in ...
Mice had longer lives and monkeys stayed healthier as they aged when given taurine supplements
Sound-based quantum computers could be built using...
A chip-sized device can manipulate particles of sound in a way that mimics how particles of light ar...
