Science
ESA's new astronauts include former Paralympian ru...
The European Space Agency has chosen an astronaut with a physical disability for the first time, as ...
Immediate skin-to-skin contact advised for prematu...
The World Health Organization has changed its stance on "kangaroo care" for premature or small newbo...
Modern humans evolved a 'selfish' X chromosome aft...
The chromosome may contain regions that promote their DNA's spread by killing sperm that carry Y chr...
Bustards may use plants to treat STIs during the b...
Male great bustards seek out two toxic plants during the birds' breeding season, and extracts from t...
Flu, RSV and cost of living will all harm UK child...
Seasonal infections are set to spike, while the cost-of-living crisis is also expected to affect som...
Specific brain markers could help diagnose childre...
Physical differences in the brains of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and those...
A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Sibe...
Seven viruses from the Siberian permafrost have been revived and replicated themselves in the lab – ...
Oldest army ant found in 35-million-year-old Balti...
An unexpected discovery in a piece of amber stored at Harvard University since the 1930s reveals tha...
Physicists have designed a urinal that drastically...
Scientists used observations of the angle at which dogs urinate and laboratory tests with jets of fl...
Why the Colorado river is drying up – and what we ...
The Colorado river is the lifeblood of the US Southwest, but today it is drastically depleted due to...
COP27: Absence of clear vision stalled progress at...
A sense of stagnation pervaded the summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, as negotiators failed to reach ...
JWST has spotted chemical reactions in an exoplane...
Astronomers analysing data from the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted signs of chemical reacti...
Meta's board game-playing AI can pass as a human i...
An AI developed by researchers at Meta convincingly negotiated with humans while playing an online v...
We finally know in detail how salt dissolves in wa...
A machine learning model has revealed how crystals of sodium chloride slowly weaken and then rapidly...
What are climate summits actually for, and how can...
The lack of progress on cutting carbon emissions at COP27 has drawn criticism, but climate summits m...
Why do seagulls have dark wings? It may help them ...
Gliding birds tend to have long and thin wings, but seagulls seem to have a trick that lets them soa...
Quantum city simulation shows how to make Paris-si...
A simulated version of Paris where universities and telecommunication hubs are connected by a quantu...
Filling the internet with AI-created images will h...
The performance of image-generating AIs drops when trained using images previously created by other ...
Will artificial intelligence ever discover new law...
Algorithms can pore over astrophysical data to identify underlying equations. Now, physicists are tr...
Lab-grown adrenal glands could help treat hormone-...
Functional adrenal glands have been grown in the lab by coaxing a type of stem cell to develop in a ...
Electric pulses drastically cut number of sharks c...
The first trial of the ‘SharkGuard’ technology reduced the bycatch of blue sharks and pelagic rays b...
NASA’s flagship Artemis I mission has flown past t...
After blasting off on the enormous Space Launch System rocket, NASA's Orion capsule has flown within...
UK's quantum computing sector is flourishing after...
Investment that the UK government started in quantum technologies in 2013 seems to have paid off by ...
Australia’s first rocket is set to launch into spa...
The Eris rocket developed by Australian company Gilmour Space will be the first Australian system to...
Countries agree to create climate damage fund in h...
Despite a landmark deal on finance for "loss and damage", the package agreed in Sharm El Sheikh fall...
COP27: Forecasting overhaul may reduce extreme wea...
A UN program to revamp weather forecasting in lower-income countries could improve global climate mo...
Rare triple dip La Niña expected to occur for firs...
The eastern Pacific is expected to be unusually cold for the third winter in a row, contributing alo...
Tiny clam that was thought to be extinct found ali...
The only evidence of a species of centimetre-long white clam was a fossil collected 85 years ago, un...
Meta's Galactica AI can write scientific papers, b...
An artificial intelligence from Facebook owner Meta that is designed to write scientific research pa...
Nord Stream gas pipe explosions were sabotage, say...
A Swedish Security Service investigation has found traces of explosives at a location where mysterio...
People with paralysis navigate a room via a mind-c...
Three people with paralysis of all four limbs navigated a cluttered room via a mind-controlled wheel...
Brazil picked as 2022 World Cup winners by Alan Tu...
A prediction model that anyone can try has given Brazil a 25 per cent chance of winning the men's fo...
Online adverts estimated to use as much energy as ...
An AI that tracks digital ads’ energy consumption could help tech companies and advertisers to act m...
Drug that delays onset of type 1 diabetes gets app...
In an ongoing trial, the drug teplizumab delayed the onset of type 1 diabetes in children and adults...
AI-generated deepfake faces could help protect pri...
Algorithms that generate fake faces could be used to change people’s appearance in photos they don’t...
Psychedelic drugs may reopen critical learning per...
In adult mice, psychedelic drugs including LSD, ketamine and psilocybin have been shown to reopen th...
US megadrought could upend life as we know it – ju...
We don't know exactly how the current megadrought in south-western North America will end, but there...
Myopia linked to five genetic variants and going t...
In a study of more than 330,000 people, five genetic variants and being educated to university level...
IBM quantum computer runs largest quantum program ...
Large quantum programs build up errors as they run, but a technique for mitigating these errors has ...
Wet pet food has seven times the carbon emissions ...
An assessment of almost 940 kinds of Brazilian cat and dog food has found that producing wet food cr...
Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4...
Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, which lived sometime between 72.1 million and 83.6 million years ago, ...
Ronnametres and quettagrams have joined the ranks ...
New prefixes in the International System of Units have been confirmed, ushering in ronto and quecto ...
JWST sees a stunning hourglass of light around a s...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a star that hasn’t yet finished forming, alo...
Early meteorites brought enough water to Mars to c...
Meteorites bombarding the Red Planet may have carried so much water that it could have covered the p...
The migrating birds that roam the world to live in...
Some bird species fly vast distances to enjoy an almost unlimited summer. We are still learning abou...
A gift from nature: Geothermal energy in Tuscany's...
Photographer Luigi Avantaggiato has documented the ways in which an Italian community has harnessed ...
Telluria review: Political dystopia from a bravura...
Vladimir Sorokin's dystopian fantasy is a wild read, mixing political satire with steampunk microsta...
Limitless With Chris Hemsworth review: How to live...
The Hollywood A-lister endures a series of challenges in a bid to extend his life expectancy in this...
A Fractured Infinity review: Multiverse plot trope...
Writers and film makers are always using the multiverse as fuel for their plots, but Nathan Tavares ...
Join the hunt for clouds high up in the Martian at...
Cloud gazing isn’t only an Earthly pastime. You can help planetary scientists by cloud spotting on M...
