Astrophysics

Spectacular Triassic reptile had an early kind of feathers

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made...

AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from th...

Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict...

Simple skincare routine could stop babies developing ec...

Keeping a baby's skin moisturised could significantly reduce their risk of eczem...

AI beats goalkeepers at predicting which way penalty ta...

By analysing videos of penalty kicks, a deep learning model was able to predict ...

Ancient ‘terror birds’ may have been no match for hungr...

A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodil...

Cleaner air has increased the number of city heatwaves

Reducing air pollution is critical for improving public health, but it has broug...

Ancient animal's fossilised brain prompts rethink of sp...

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain str...

The pandemic may have aged our brains even before we ca...

The covid-19 pandemic changed our lives, and the world, in many ways - and now w...

Tiny elusive gecko rediscovered on one of the Galapagos...

Leaf-toed geckos were thought to be locally extinct on Rabida Island, but the di...

DeepMind and OpenAI claim gold in International Mathema...

Two AI models have achieved gold medal standard for the first time in a prestigi...

Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor named as...

Shri rapax, known from a fossil found in Mongolia, had strong hands and teeth wh...

Gluten may not actually trigger many irritable bowel sy...

People who follow a gluten-free diet in the hope of it calming their irritable b...

Sprinkling limestone on farms may offer an unexpected c...

Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic –...

Four-day working week may boost our health and performa...

Employees who trialled a four-day work week for six months said they slept bette...

Immortal stars could live forever by 'eating' dark matter

A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanati...

Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just like us

Octopuses can be tricked into thinking that a fake arm is part of their body, su...

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