Astrophysics

Ancient humans lived inside a lava tube in the Arabian ...

Underground tunnels created by lava flows provided humans with shelter for thous...

Old-fashioned pessimism might actually help us fight cl...

Negative thinking is unpopular but it could drive more realistic efforts to limi...

Skin-deep wounds can damage gut health in mice

We know there is some connection between skin and gut health, but many assumed t...

Intel reveals world's biggest 'brain-inspired' neuromor...

A computer intended to mimic the way the brain processes and stores data could p...

Turning plants blue with gene editing could make robot ...

Weeding robots can sometimes struggle to tell weeds from crops, but genetically ...

A cicada double brood is coming – it's less rare than y...

Up to 17 US states could be peppered with more than a trillion cicadas this spri...

Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yields an...

Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar wa...

Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how e...

We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-ce...

Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a week

A serendipitous lab accident revealed that hibernating bumblebee queens can make...

Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here's ho...

Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the an...

How to destroy a black hole

A black hole would be tough to destroy, but in the season two premiere of Dead P...

Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon storage ...

Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5°C of warming assumes we ...

Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by compu...

Remote-controlled cockroaches with computers mounted on their backs can move as ...

A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in ou...

A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever...

Geoscientists are using telecom 'dark fibres' to map Ea...

The networks of fibre optic cables that criss-cross the planet could be used to ...

Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become...

One species of nematode worm turns into a kin-devouring nightmare if it grows up...

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