Raised levels of certain proteins in the blood may indicate if someone is more likely to develop conditions such as cancer, heart disease or motor neurone disease in the next decade | Continue reading
The ozone hole over Antarctica may get close to its record size this year due to repercussions from the ferocious Tonga volcano eruption in 2022 | Continue reading
Grey wolves living on the southwest coast of Alaska are regularly eating a diet rich in marine animals | Continue reading
Waymo and Cruise can now charge for ride-hailing services throughout San Francisco despite objections that driverless cars interfere with traffic and first responders | Continue reading
Every couple of decades Saturn develops a huge storm, and now researchers have found that the atmosphere keeps chemical records of those storms for hundreds of years | Continue reading
Among a group of people who listened to different audiobooks before bed, researchers could identify what story they heard based on the descriptions of their dreams | Continue reading
Juveniles of a common household spider have been shown to eat their siblings in the lab, and they are probably doing it in our cupboards too | Continue reading
What we can learn from efforts to protect Tane Mahuta, a giant kauri tree in New Zealand, and Pando, a forest of thousands of genetically identical trees that make up one organism | Continue reading
Exotic stars may be scattered throughout the cosmos, from boson stars that could look like black holes to dark stars that might be powered by dark matter | Continue reading
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now joins other forecasters in projecting an above-average number of hurricanes will form across the Atlantic this year | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has made new observations of Earendel, the most distant single star ever seen, and it seems like it has a cooler companion star | Continue reading
An experiment at Fermilab in the US suggests that muons rotate faster than expected, which would be a problem for the standard model of particle physics | Continue reading
The shipping industry has significantly reduced its sulphur emissions since 2020, and in doing so has inadvertently contributed slightly to global warming | Continue reading
A modelling study suggests that increases in photosynthesis have slowed since 2000, opposing previous research that said this effect would remain strong, helping to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere | Continue reading
The plastics polyethylene and polypropylene, which are used in shopping bags, bottles and food packaging, can be turned into the ingredients for detergents | Continue reading
The strict time limits China imposed on how long under-18s can spend playing video games had no effect on heavy gaming generally, according to a study of 7 billion hours of playing time | Continue reading
Jane Friedman discovered that Amazon was selling five books under her name that she hadn't written, but rather seemed to be AI-generated impersonations | Continue reading
Russia's first lunar mission in nearly 50 years is designed to land near the moon’s south pole and is being viewed as an attempt to show that the country can still compete in the international space industry | Continue reading
Objects called trajectoids can be 3D-printed to match a path so they can roll down it forever – and simulating this could help model how the spin of quantum bits will change over time | Continue reading
An AI can detect what is being typed according to the sounds different keys make when being pressed on a keyboard | Continue reading
The Perseids are a major meteor shower - here is your guide to spotting them during their peak on 12 and 13 August 2023 | Continue reading
Following a flurry of replication attempts, the claim that LK-99 perfectly conducts electricity at room temperature and pressure is looking unlikely to hold up | Continue reading
Galactic-02, Virgin Galactic’s first mission to carry paying civilian customers to space, is scheduled to launch from New Mexico on 10 August | Continue reading
Galactic-02, Virgin Galactic’s first mission to carry paying civilian customers to space, successfully launched and then landed in New Mexico | Continue reading
Ancient faeces contains the first evidence that terrestrial vertebrates living during the Late Triassic epoch hosted multiple parasites | Continue reading
The closest living relatives of the bacteria that moved into the cells of a larger organism more than a billion years ago and eventually became mitochondria powering our cells may have been identified living in hot springs | Continue reading
The genetic variant APOE4 substantially raises the risk of Alzheimer's disease, but it has also been linked to women having more children in an Indigenous group in Bolivia | Continue reading
As news feeds overflow with videos of raw sewage gushing into UK rivers, the government here needs to step up with tougher regulation and more joined-up thinking | Continue reading
More and more people are staying single long term. Daniel Schreiber's nuanced book looks into the effects of life lived alone | Continue reading
See plants and animals like never before with award-winning photographs taken by researchers from around the world with the help of modern microscopes | Continue reading
Oliver Stone's documentary Nuclear Now marks a big moment for nuclear technology, but it is Christopher Nolan's film that creates a perspective for us to understand the origin of our fears, says Simon Ings | Continue reading
Seeing Saturn’s rings through a telescope can be an awe-inspiring experience. Now is a great time to check them out, says Abigail Beall | Continue reading
Following his discovery of the ancient hominin Homo naledi, Lee Berger was determined to enter the cave where the fossils were discovered, but a dreadful journey lay ahead | Continue reading
Health services need to plan around a growing number of people taking lifelong weight-loss injections such as Wegovy - and the sooner they face up to that, the better, says Clare Wilson | Continue reading
A particle called Pines's demon has been seen inside a superconductor, decades after it was first predicted | Continue reading
The Curiosity rover has discovered hexagonal patterns in ancient mud on the Red Planet, which hints at cyclical wet and dry periods and boosts chances Mars once hosted life | Continue reading
Your body is ageing down one of four - or more - possible pathways. Figuring out your "ageotype" could help you zero in on the things you can do to stay healthier for longer | Continue reading
A “failed star” known as a brown dwarf is orbiting so tightly with a small star that both of them would fit inside our sun, and at least one of them won’t survive | Continue reading
Running Tide, a carbon-removal company in the US, has sunk more than 10,000 tonnes of waste wood into the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere – but experts aren't convinced it will work | Continue reading
Archaeologists previously believed the Tibetan plateau was one of the last places to be settled by humans or hominins – over the past couple of decades that notion has been slowly but comprehensively blown apart | Continue reading
Predatory reptiles move quickly and aggressively towards the sound of babies crying and can tell if they are in genuine distress and so potentially vulnerable | Continue reading
The National Nature Assessment slated to be complete in 2026 will be the largest assessment of water, land and wildlife in the US | Continue reading
Scientists have created an "unknome" of proteins encoded by human genes, whose existence is known but whose functions are mostly not | Continue reading
The use of CAPTCHA tests to prove that website users are human and not bots might come under scrutiny given research showing that bots complete them faster and more accurately than we do | Continue reading
A vaccine has induced antibodies and other immune cells against the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in mice. EBV can cause flu-like symptoms but is also increasingly being linked to multiple sclerosis | Continue reading
Physicists are using quantum computers to conjure various exotic phenomena and are claiming that their creations are truly real. The work is forcing us to ask challenging questions about the nature of quantum reality | Continue reading
A neural network trained on hundreds of images of hair styles can render hair so it actually looks realistic, which could be a boon for video games and animated films | Continue reading
From shrinking sea ice to the wildest heatwave ever, the extreme events happening recently in Antarctica could be a sign of much worse to come | Continue reading