Astrophysics

Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet

The ion tail of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could appear as a blue streak acro...

Living microbes found deep inside 2-billion-year-old rock

Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bact...

Do the 2024 Nobel prizes show that AI is the future of ...

Two of the three science Nobel prizes in 2024 have been won by people working in...

How hurricanes like Milton spawn tornadoes

Hurricanes often produce tornadoes that add to the destructive power of the stor...

The relentless push for productivity misconstrues how o...

The latest neuroscience shows that, contrary to a lot of productivity advice, th...

Weight-loss drugs lower impulse to eat – and perhaps to...

Popular weight-loss medications including Ozempic and Wegovy contain a drug that...

This test could reveal whether gravity is subject to qu...

If gravity is a truly quantum entity, something as simple as measuring the stren...

Once we pass 1.5°C of global warming, there is no going...

We might not be able to cool the world down again after overshooting the 1.5°C w...

Your brain has individual neurons that respond to the s...

The discovery that certain smells can be linked to specific neurons is helping u...

Extreme hurricane season is here and it is fuelled by c...

Hurricanes have kept forecasters guessing this year, but with the arrival of int...

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for mastering structur...

David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobel pri...

Your toothbrush is teeming with hundreds of types of vi...

More than 600 types of viruses that infect bacteria have been found living on to...

Hot sauce taste test reveals how expectations shape ple...

Brain scans of people tasting squirts of hot sauce have revealed how positive an...

AIs can work together in much larger groups than humans...

It is thought that humans can only maintain relationships with around 150 people...

Growing number of Earth's ‘vital signs’ endangered by c...

Key climate indicators from greenhouse gas levels to ice loss have reached recor...

Microscopic gears powered by light could be used to mak...

Gears just a few micrometres wide can be carved from silicon using a beam of ele...

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