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When rift lakes dry up it can cause earthquakes an...
Lake Turkana in Kenya, known as the cradle of humanity, has shrunk in recent millennia – and the los...
AI power use forecast finds the industry far off t...
Several large tech firms that are active in AI have set goals to hit net zero by 2030, but a new for...
Mysterious holes in Andean mountain may be an Inca...
Thousands of holes arranged in a snake-like pattern on Monte Sierpe in Peru could have been a monume...
James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix,...
As one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, James Watson pioneered the field of g...
Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than...
The buried ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus seems to be stable across extremely long periods of time...
Having children plays a complicated role in the ra...
The effort of reproducing may divert energy away from repairing DNA or fighting illness, which could...
A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic ...
A dwarf galaxy 100 million light years away is being stripped of its crucial star-forming gas, and i...
We may never figure out where interstellar comet 3...
The surface of comet 3I/ATLAS may have been so radically altered by cosmic rays that deducing its ho...
A three-legged lion has learned to hunt in a compl...
Jacob, an 11-year-old lion, has defied expectations by surviving for years after losing a leg – now ...
Digital map lets you explore the Roman Empire's va...
Archaeologists have compiled the most detailed map yet of roads throughout the Roman Empire in AD 15...
Grafting trick could let us gene-edit a huge varie...
Many plants including cocoa, coffee and avocado cannot be gene-edited but a technique involving graf...
Skeleton with brutal injuries identified as duke a...
The identity of a skeleton buried under a Budapest convent has been confirmed as Béla of Macsó, a Hu...
Is the expansion of the universe slowing down?
It is widely accepted that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but now researchers sa...
New quantum computer is on the path to unravelling...
Using the Helios-1 quantum computer, researchers have used a record-breaking number of error-proof q...
Lumpy ‘caterpillar wormholes’ may connect entangle...
A mathematical model suggests that when a pair of black holes gets quantum entangled, this can give ...
What we’re learning about consciousness from maste...
Neuroscientist Matthew Sacchet is revealing how mastering meditation can not only enable transcenden...
Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a...
Researchers warn that the alga Karenia cristata, which has killed around a million animals in Austra...
Ancient DNA may rewrite the story of Iceland's ear...
Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted ar...
