Astrophysics

Living at high altitude may help ward off obesity

Children seem to be less likely to be obese if they live at high altitude, which...

ADHD drugs reduce risk of criminal behaviour, drug abus...

A study of 150,000 people with ADHD in Sweden confirms that drugs taken to manag...

Jacket that gets thinner when you sweat could help avoi...

A material made from bacterial cellulose alters its insulating properties in dry...

mRNA drugs could protect against almost any kind of vir...

mRNA drugs might be able to protect against a huge range of viruses by turning o...

Pacific Ocean changes may 'lock in' US megadrought for ...

A major cycle of Pacific Ocean temperatures is shifting due to climate change, a...

Fossil teeth may come from a new species of early hominin

Some 2.6-million-year-old teeth found in Ethiopia hint that an unknown species f...

Tiny discs can levitate in the upper atmosphere using s...

A physics phenomenon discovered 150 years ago allows tiny objects to levitate us...

Couples who meet online may have lower relationship sat...

Meeting online may be the norm in today's dating scene, but connecting offline i...

GPT-5's modest gains suggest AI progress is slowing down

OpenAI’s latest large language model has achieved seemingly underwhelming improv...

Vape mouthpieces could be swarming with fungi that harm...

Fungal species, one of which caused chronic bronchitis in mice, were collected f...

DNA analysis reveals West African ancestry in early med...

An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably...

Why a mysterious group of ancient humans doesn’t have a...

An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an offic...

The real reason why we lost the ability to make vitamin C

The textbooks say our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C because we di...

Social media toxicity can't be fixed by changing the al...

Experiments involving AI chatbots interacting on a simulated social media platfo...

These ants are one of the most effective teams in the n...

Typically, individuals work less effectively in bigger teams, but weaver ants bu...

Trees may be getting more flammable because of climate ...

Researchers are testing whether increasing UV radiation is altering chemistry of...

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