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70,000 years ago humans underwent a major shift – ...
Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explai...
Geoengineering could avoid climate tipping points,...
Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean cur...
'Flashes of brilliance and frustration': I let an ...
Ordering takeaway food, writing emails, reworking presentations: AI assistants are promoted as a way...
Forests' vanishing snow is also bad news for carbo...
The loss of snow cover in temperate forests is set to slow their growth and reduce their ability to ...
Mathematicians are chasing a number that may revea...
Some numbers are so unimaginably large that they defy the bounds of modern mathematics, and now math...
Rapid bursts of ageing are causing a total rethink...
Suddenly feeling old? Evidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically...
Did something just hit Saturn? Astronomers are rac...
Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn ever year, but we have never spotted one ...
US government tests new vapour-sniffing drug detec...
Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensitive than a dog’s nose...
Vapour-sniffing drug detector tested at the US-Mex...
Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensitive than a dog’s nose...
AI could be about to completely change the way we ...
Computers can help ensure that mathematical proofs are correct, but translating traditional maths in...
'Hybrid' skull may have been a child of Neandertha...
The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens...
Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon di...
Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the...
Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned int...
A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that fores...
Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to di...
The growth of domestic solar installations opens the possibility of hackers targeting their smart in...
We finally understand why quasicrystals can exist
Not quite crystals and not quite a glass, quasicrystals are an oddity whose properties are not well ...
Quantum-enhanced supercomputers are starting to do...
Working in tandem, a quantum computer and a supercomputer modelled the behaviour of several molecule...
Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar...
Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar sys...
Carbon-offset schemes aren't prepared for forests ...
Forest-based carbon-offset projects need a buffer to guarantee their climate benefits will last – bu...
