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One of the fundamental forces is stronger than we thought
The most precise calculation yet of the electroweak force could help fix cracks in the standard model of particle physics
Reading for pleasure boosts memory, empathy and mental health
Fewer people are reading for pleasure, but getting lost in a good book has repeatedly been linked to substantial cognitive benefits
Brain implant lets people with paralysis speak and gesture at the same …
Previous brain implants have enabled people with paralysis to either speak or move, but a new, larger one let them do both simultaneously via an …
Jet-powered drones pose a new threat to Ukraine – can they be …
Ukraine is racing to design faster, more capable interceptor drones to tackle Russia's new generation of jet-powered Shahed attack drones
We’ve long thought that time has only one dimension. What if we’re …
A second dimension of time has long seemed wholly incompatible with reality. But fresh insights involving black holes and quantum mechanics suggest it deserves another …
Scientists call for ‘emergency’ measures to save sea life from El Niño
Reducing fishing quotas, rescuing endangered species from the water and testing geoengineering could help soften ocean heat impacts from the record El Niño, some oceanographers …
Why is everyone suddenly worried about the risks of AI?
AI experts put the chance of models rising up and killing us all at greater than 10 per cent – but are the risks real? …
Two bizarre new forms of ice discovered that could exist deep inside …
Crushing water to pressures in the millions of atmospheres has revealed two strange types of ice, which may form deep inside Neptune and Uranus
The cosmic coincidences that made our universe – and us – possible
The sun and moon are positioned just right for us to see total solar eclipses, and the make-up of the universe is just right for …
SpaceXAI data centre may have led to Mississippi air pollution spike
Elon Musk firm’s Colossus 2 data centre – the largest in the US – has been spewing out nitrogen oxide emissions from trailer-mounted gas turbines, …
Earliest alligator flourished in the wake of the dinosaur extinction
Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America
AI is both the best and worst thing to ever happen to …
Mathematicians now have a formidable tool for breaking open challenging problems, but working out how best to use it isn't going to be easy
How to build powerful microhabits for your wellbeing – and keep them
Research shows that short practices of mindfulness are as good as, if not better than, long ones. Columnist David Robson takes a look at how …
Natural feedbacks will warm world an extra 20 per cent this century
Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise. By 2100, such feedback loops will increase warming by 20 to 30 per cent more than …
We may finally know what kick-starts muscle contractions in childbirth
An influx of immune cells into the uterus may be what initiates childbirth. These grab on to muscle cells via tiny tubes and send across …
Gamma ray burst may have been two supernovae in one
A group of astronomers proposes that a series of events in a distant galaxy formed both a black hole and a pulsar, but other experts …
Exquisite 66-million-year-old bird feather preserved in dinosaur dropping
A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely preserved in the fossilised …
Here is how to understand OpenAI’s major mathematical breakthrough
Since OpenAI announced its solution to one of the prestigious Millennium Prize Problems, mathematicians have been urgently trying to unpick what it means
The world’s biggest carbon sink may start emitting CO2 after net zero
If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it absorbs, prolonging global warming
What’s next for mathematics now that AI is upending the field?
Famous and challenging problems in mathematics are falling to AI at a rapid pace. Where does this leave mathematicians, and what will the field look …
Cracking the ageing code
Where financial health meets human longevity.
August was the joint hottest month on record
Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average, and further heat is on the way
Why our common ancestor with chimpanzees keeps getting further away
The more we learn about chimpanzees, the more they resemble us – but the further back in time our shared ancestor seems to be. Columnist …
Earliest evidence of habitual drug use found in teeth in Indonesia
Strange, rounded grooves in prehistoric teeth are thought to have been made by regularly sucking whole betel nuts to extract a pain-relieving compound. This marks …
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