For the first time, researchers have spotted what appears to be a supermassive black hole flying away from its home galaxy at incredible speeds, trailing bursts of star formation behind it | Continue reading
Warming in the eastern Pacific Ocean may change wind patterns above the Gulf of Mexico, leading to more hurricanes making landfall in the eastern US | Continue reading
A vertical farm built inside a greenhouse in Texas can produce hundreds of thousands of heads of lettuce with significantly less energy than usual | Continue reading
Since 2010, around 500 home runs in Major League Baseball can be attributed to the lowering of air density on hotter days | Continue reading
Weird hands have become a well-known way to identify an image generated by artificial intelligence, but that could be set to change | Continue reading
Shrimp-like amphipods may be the architects of lines of holes at the bottom of the Bering Sea, which serve as a habitat to a wide range of fauna roaming the abyss | Continue reading
Philosophers have long debated whether Earth is the best of all worlds. More powerful telescopes are finally giving us a better chance of answering this question, writes astronomer Chris Impey | Continue reading
A bizarre mode of reproduction discovered in yellow crazy ants results in males that have two separate sets of DNA in different parts of their body | Continue reading
We only have a few images of the rings around Uranus, but now the James Webb Space Telescope has captured a startling view | Continue reading
Existing methods for manipulating neurons with light require invasive surgical procedures, but a new technique can link neurons without the need for surgery | Continue reading
We don't fully understand how the sun spits out high-energy particles during a solar flare, so researchers have created a miniature version in the lab | Continue reading
Mesothelean spiders diverged from all other spiders long before the first dinosaurs – three species of these living fossils have just been identified in western Hunan province | Continue reading
The kakapo, a flightless parrot, only survives on a few predator-free islands in New Zealand – but preserved faeces could inform the search for new habitats | Continue reading
The global average sea surface temperature has hit a record high of 21.1°C, which could lead to fiercer hurricanes and typhoons | Continue reading
A bacterial treatment for coral stopped or slowed 68 per cent of infections with stony coral tissue loss disease in the lab, and it prevented the spread of the disease as well | Continue reading
Latest figures show that some of the concerns about the vaccine may have been misfounded | Continue reading
There are many smartphone apps that aim to identify plants from photographs, but tests have found that most are not very accurate | Continue reading
We know that long-term memory is fallible, and now it seems short-term memory can't be relied on either, if you are trying to recall an event that doesn't match your expectations | Continue reading
Beliefs in conspiracy theories can damage societies and individuals, but the only effective ways to counter them are impractical, according to a review | Continue reading
Chemical analysis of metal sculptures made in West Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries provides evidence that may reshape the understanding of Germany’s involvement with the Benin Bronzes | Continue reading
A legacy of racism in Western medicine means healthcare is badly in need of decolonising. Annabel Sowemimo's book sets out why | Continue reading
Climate scientists are being paired with top comedians in a new initiative aiming to drive home the message about the climate crisis. Here's why it just might work, says Bill McGuire (with help from Kiri Pritchard-McLean) | Continue reading
The new status of Albania's river Vjosa is a major conservation milestone. But plans to open an airport on the river's delta next year soured the celebrations, says Graham Lawton | Continue reading
From diving ants to jewel beetles, there are millions of insect species on Earth. A wonderful new guide from entomologist Steve Nicholls celebrates some of the smallest lives and details the strain they are under | Continue reading
Astrophotographers Jason Guenzel and Andrew McCarthy took more than 90,000 separate images and five days to create this unique composite view of the sun | Continue reading
Turning a legendary environmental non-fiction book into a video game is an ambitious project. It opens as a ladybird dies in a fog of DDT, but goes downhill after that, finds Jacob Aron | Continue reading
Planting asparagus is a long-term investment in good eating, but your patience will eventually be rewarded with a crop that is tastier than anything available in shops, says Clare Wilson | Continue reading
Quantum theory, and the world of subatomic particles and forces it describes, has a daunting reputation for strangeness. And yet, with the right guidance, anyone can enjoy its many wonders | Continue reading
Get to grips with the deepest layer of reality we know of with our inventory of the subatomic realm, from known particles like quarks and the Higgs boson to hypotheticals including the fifth force and strings in 11 dimensions | Continue reading
Traces on the sea floor suggest an ancient ice sheet retreated at more than 600 metres per day at the end of the last glaciation, raising concern about the fate of modern ice sheets | Continue reading
Researchers filmed a dwarf reed snake doing an armless cartwheel to escape from danger by repeatedly launching its body forward in a coil | Continue reading
A study in 13 species of ungulates, including horses, sheep, deer and llamas, found that the most innovative individuals were also less integrated in social groups | Continue reading
A study in 13 species of ungulates, including horses, sheep, deer and llamas, found that the most innovative individuals were also less integrated in social groups | Continue reading
Capuchins, which have hands similar to ours, are deceived by a sleight-of-hand trick. But marmosets, which lack opposable thumbs, aren’t fooled | Continue reading
The Yanomami people of the Amazon have the world’s most diverse gut microbiome – and David Good, who is half Yanomami, thinks it might hold the clues to better health | Continue reading
A female Burmese python – an invasive species in the US – has laid a clutch of 96 eggs in one go, almost double the average for these snakes | Continue reading
Putting two forms of semiconductor material called gallium oxide together seems to make it completely resistant to radiation | Continue reading
Since 2012, Australia has detained hundreds of children seeking asylum, often for years. Now a review has revealed the lasting physical and mental health impacts of this policy | Continue reading
African savannah elephants play, care for their young and show social behaviours associated with domestic animals, despite never being domesticated by humans | Continue reading
NASA has selected four crew members to travel around the moon in its Artemis II mission, planned for late 2024: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen | Continue reading
NASA has selected four crew members to travel around the moon in its Artemis II mission, planned for late 2024: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen | Continue reading
The double-slit experiment consists of light passing through two slits separated by a small space – now researchers have performed it with small gaps in time instead | Continue reading
Pregnancies that last longer lead to larger babies and riskier births, but some genes have let mothers and fetuses find a middle ground | Continue reading
The production of CFCs was banned globally in 2010, but researchers have detected rising levels of five CFC chemicals from unknown sources | Continue reading
Popular plagiarism detection software used by many schools and universities worldwide is set to get an AI-detecting component in the wake of the release of ChatGPT | Continue reading
With Russia's invasion ongoing, Ukraine is looking for ways that artificial intelligence can help treat the wounded | Continue reading
A visualisation of nerve development and migrating stem cells in a 2-day-old chick embryo may help us understand how some congenital diseases occur in humans | Continue reading
Prairie strips, areas of wild vegetation within intensive farms, are associated with bee colonies collecting more pollen, growing larger and having better winter survival rates | Continue reading