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Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a critical...
When ants try to invade their nest, Japanese honeybees flutter their wings and tilt their bodies to...
Analysis of lunar imagery has ended a longstanding debate over whether there are accessible underground areas on...
Science is at last confirming what many people have long suspected – that mammals, birds and perhaps...
Missions to explore other worlds, like Mars or Saturn’s moon Titan, could disrupt or destroy extraterrestrial life...
A survey of people in the US has revealed the widespread belief that artificial intelligence models are...
Smartphones contain some of our most intimate data, but are you willing to share it with your...
The UK had no plans for preventing or limiting the spread of a covid-19-like infection because it...
The VIPER moon rover was due to launch in 2025 but NASA has suddenly cancelled it, citing...
A jiggling robot has revealed the ideal vibrating speed to free jumbled fibres
Retinol, which is commonly added to anti-ageing skincare products, may improve hydration by interacting with bacteria on...
Ten people in the US have been infected with a strain of bird flu called H5N1, but...
Roughly 10 percent of the world’s energy is used for cooling, with much of the necessary electricity...
A pacemaker-like implant detected opioid overdoses in pigs within 1 minute and successfully administered a treatment
The official definition of a planet, which famously saw Pluto demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006,...
To even out the intermittent power supply from wind and solar, we need to build vast energy...
The liquid hydrocarbon seas, lakes and rivers on Titan have varying compositions and signs of active tides...
The Perseid meteor shower lasts from mid-July until the end of August, and it is one of...
Scientists have made major strides in predicting rapidly intensifying storms over the past decade, but even the...
The hidden semiconductor abilities of diamonds could help power grids and electric vehicles manage far greater amounts...
UK regulators have issued the first approval for a company to use chicken cells grown in the...
Improperly discarded batteries leak toxic chemicals and are prone to exploding. A new program funded by the...
A set of mathematical equations can help turn apparently random observations into a clock – and then...
When astronauts go on a spacewalk, their urine is collected by what is essentially a large diaper...
All life on Earth can trace its origin to LUCA, the last universal common ancestor – and...
Hoverboards, or self-balancing scooters, are already used by hobbyists as a basis for robots, but now a...
Highland and lowland populations in Papua New Guinea have different gene variants derived from Denisovan archaic humans,...
Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic are in shortage, and telehealth startups are selling “compounded” versions. A WIRED investigation...
Our pupils shrink and expand as we breathe in and out, but whether this affects vision is...
Working with a tiny cantilever, physicists managed to violate the second law of thermodynamics, using less energy...
Climate change presents a growing threat to the nation’s nearly 92,000 dams, many of which are more...
Damage from tropical storms like Beryl saddles islands with debt, which they have no hope of clearing...
ChatGPT-written exam submissions for a psychology degree mostly went undetected and tended to get better marks than...
A non-invasive ultrasound device can stimulate deep parts of the brain with far greater precision than previously...
There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating cell manipulations, transfusions of young blood, and...
ITER, a €20 billion nuclear fusion reactor under construction in France, will now not switch on until...
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted hundreds of odd, distant galaxies that seem to either produce...
Pictograms and petroglyphs depicting abstract lines and shapes offer a rare glimpse into the culture of people...
Collins Aerospace is expected to back out of a contract with NASA, while high interest rates and...
The skeletons of ancient Egyptian scribes reveal the health toll of sitting on the floor while performing...
A genetic study of woolly mammoths found on an isolated Arctic island shows they reached a stable...
Trilobites are one of the most common fossils we know, but normally only their hard exoskeleton is...
Red foxes and Arctic foxes dive headfirst into snow at up to 4 metres per second to...
Plastic production is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than flying – at a summit in Canada,...
Britain’s former climate adviser says the country’s future plans are weak, climate protests are no longer helpful,...
As the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, climate policy decisions taken by India will shape...
India’s space agency has been remarkably successful in recent years, growing the country’s prestige on the global...
A joint investment by the Australian federal government and the government of Queensland makes PsiQuantum one of...
A report found data privacy problems with the vast majority of 30 companies that sell neurotechnology devices...
Total solar eclipses are astonishing, but travelling to get to one is less so – this episode...
Long feted by fossil hunters and geologists, if UNESCO recognises the extraordinary rock formation at Madygen in...
China’s brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use...
Most people are too risk-averse when it comes to life’s biggest choices. Learning how to overcome the...
Researchers simulated the wind damage from seven historical hurricanes to identify just a few key electrical lines...
The computers that secure cryptocurrencies like bitcoin consume large amounts of power, pushing up electricity prices and...
The US House of Representatives is voting on a bill that would require TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance,...
Since their introduction in the 1800s, giant sequoia trees in the UK have grown up to 55...
Populations of moths living in urban places may have evolved smaller wings to limit how much bright...
The James Webb Space Telescope has found an unusual galaxy in the early universe with a black...
A ‘gene drive’ that spreads through plant populations could be used to wipe out pests such as...
Most physicists believe that only a quantum theory of gravity can fully explain mysteries of the universe...
A thought experiment in which all music is replaced with AI-generated “Taylor’s Versions” should prompt us to...
When the moon hides the sun in a total solar eclipse, some animals seem to think that...
An analysis of deep-sea drill cores suggests that Mars may have enough gravitational influence to shift sediment...
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks orbits the sun every 71 years and is currently making its closest approach. Here’s when...
Some studies have claimed that plants emit sounds when stressed and might perceive the distress calls of...
Meet the amazing azolla, a nutritious fern that grows like crazy, capturing carbon in the process. Could...
When everyone’s hooking their brains up to computers, we’ll need BCI surgeons to install the hardware.
Bolstered by impressive clinical trials, some companies are offering ketamine therapy as an employee health benefit –...
Unlike most other animals, the cave-dwelling Mexican tetra doesn’t get a fatty liver when it is malnourished...
Lake sediments reveal the ancient history of Aboriginal people’s use of fire to manage the landscape, a...
The Pentagon says it’s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is...
Physical injuries, mental health issues and malnutrition are widespread in Gaza – and major health groups have...
Newborns whose mothers speak two languages appear to have distinct brain responses to speech compared with those...
Antarctic sea ice cover remains far below average levels for the third year in a row, but...
The origins of Mars’s moons Phobos and Deimos have long been an enigma, but they may have...
An experimental Alzheimer’s treatment involving sounds and flickering lights also prevented a decline in mental sharpness among...
Feedback is delighted to learn about a company’s Valentine’s Day promotion offering “a complimentary breeding pair of...
Living in close proximity to strangers requires shared social norms – but manners can also be used...
Palaeontologist Donald R. Prothero squares up to the tough task of explaining how life and climate have...
February was the ninth month in a row to set a global heat record, with global average...
Large language models still demonstrate racial prejudice against speakers of African American English, despite the safety guard...
People with artery plaques containing microplastics were about four times as likely to have a heart attack...
Something in the environment seems to be causing a rise in early-onset cases of bowel cancer. Now...
Dogs with a mutation in the POMC gene, common in Labradors and flat-coated retrievers, have a stronger...
Hundreds of boosters over a 29-month period had little effect on the one person who tried it.
A genetic study of nearly 2700 individuals has revealed the ancestry of Indian people, and gets scientists...
Millions of us are turning to chatbots for emotional support. But there are good reasons to think...
Puzzles that bumblebees cannot solve on their own can be cracked with help from another bee, adding...
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that a distant galaxy stopped forming stars extraordinarily fast, making...
Korolevo, a site in Ukraine where early humans made stone tools, has been dated to 1.4 million...
Some white dwarfs seem to stop ageing for billions of years, and this may be due to...
The sinking of land caused by the extraction of water and fossil fuels is exacerbating the threat...
A company called Colossal claims it has taken a “momentous step” towards bringing back the mammoth. Here’s...
Coastal land is dropping, known as subsidence. That could expose hundreds of thousands of additional Americans to...
Gilmour Space Technologies is awaiting approval from the Australian Space Agency for the first launch of its...
Our skin’s pores normally enlarge when we exercise, but this appears to be hindered if we are...
De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences claims it has found a way to reprogram elephant cells, a technical breakthrough...
An experimental device developed by Cognito Therapeutics seeks to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients using light...
