Astrophysics

Persistent pain after a UTI may be due to an overgrowth...

Many people experience ongoing pain even after a urinary tract infection has sup...

Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise the ...

A fear of predators may have helped many animals recognise when they weren't the...

Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to ...

Cosmic dust grains may be small, but they are mighty – it turns out dust is cruc...

Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-level...

As part of a lawsuit against OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk has asked a court to ...

UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusi...

Since Brexit, the UK no longer has access to ITER, the world's largest nuclear f...

Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine has ...

23andMe's DNA test was once named "invention of the year", but now the company i...

Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon in th...

When the faecal matter produced by plankton sinks, it carries carbon from shallo...

1 in 8 people worldwide has obesity

Between 1990 and 2022, obesity rates more than doubled among adults and quadrupl...

El Niño will cause record-breaking heat across the worl...

A climate model has forecast where the most extreme heat will occur during the c...

Squid-like plant that lives mostly underground is new t...

For the first time in nearly a century, a new genus of plant has been discovered...

How do you recycle a nuclear fusion reactor? We're abou...

The UK's JET nuclear fusion reactor has been shut down after 40 years, and now r...

Keto diet helps people maintain weight loss after stopp...

In a small study, people with type 2 diabetes maintained their weight loss on th...

A simple trick can make a dog treat a stranger as their...

If an unfamiliar person spends 15 minutes following a dog, it tends to follow th...

Miso paste made in space opens a new frontier for ferme...

A fermentation experiment on the International Space Station produced miso paste...

Habitable ocean world K2-18b may actually be inhospitab...

An exoplanet called K2-18b has been suggested as a good place to look for alien ...

AIs get better at maths if you tell them to pretend to ...

Chatbots vary their answers depending on the exact wording used to prompt them, ...

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