Astrophysics

Rare corpse flower that stinks of rotting flesh blooms ...

A giant flower, one of the smelliest in the world, is currently blooming at the ...

Farmland near Chernobyl nuclear reactor is finally safe...

Radiation surveys suggest that it is now safe to grow food on farmland that has ...

Why herbs evolved to smell and taste so delicious

Humans may have shaped the development of aromatic herbs like lavender and mint,...

Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be siblings

The chemical composition of Pluto and Triton suggests they originated in the sam...

Driverless cars are mostly safer than humans – but wors...

Driverless cars seem to have fewer accidents than human drivers under routine co...

Chemists invoke bizarre Maxwell's demon on the largest ...

A 19th-century thought experiment that was once thought to defy the laws of ther...

Ukraine is using AI to manage the removal of Russian la...

There are so many Russian landmines across Ukraine that removing them could take...

Shipping companies are testing biofuel made from cashew...

Cashew nut shells are a source of low-emissions biofuel, which is being tested i...

Mathematicians find odd shapes that roll like a wheel i...

Not content with shapes in two or three dimensions, mathematicians like to explo...

Time crystals may make quantum computers more reliable

Extremely cold atoms that perpetually move in repeating patterns could be a prom...

Watch a humanoid robot driving a car extremely slowly

A robot named Musashi with a human-like "skeleton" and "musculature" can perform...

Google's new quantum computer may help us understand ho...

By combining two approaches to quantum computing into one device, Google has bee...

Light-activated drugs could keep sleep-deprived militar...

A US military program led by DARPA is modifying the stimulant drug dextroampheta...

Einstein's theory was wrong about black holes made out ...

The theory of relativity predicts black holes should be able to form from light ...

UK election: How can the next government get climate go...

The UK’s journey to net zero has stalled – whoever wins the 4 July election will...

Did rock art spread from one place or was it invented m...

Rock art is a truly global phenomenon, with discoveries of cave paintings and et...

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