It’s obvious that the information coming through our eyes is a fundamental way in which we navigate the world, but what’s less clear is exactly how...
The vast majority of the world’s fossil fuels are effectively “unextractable” and must remain in the ground if we want even half a chance at meeting...
The world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into rock started running on Wednesday, the companies behind the...
About 90 million years ago, a gigantic apex predator – a meat-eating dinosaur with serrated shark-like teeth – prowled what is now Uzbekistan, according to a new study of...
Global warming is a big challenge for warm-blooded animals, which must maintain a constant internal body temperature. As anyone who’s experienced heatstroke can tell you, our...
Supervolcano eruptions have caused some of the greatest catastrophes in the history of our planet, and yet we still don’t really know how to predict when...
Amid the swarms of small surreal things scuttling and swimming across planet Earth 500 million years ago, a giant loomed. Titanokorys gainesi, newly discovered in the...
Songbirds usually need very little instruction to belt out the tunes of their kin, but the right melody doesn’t necessarily come to them ‘out of the...
In metals, electrons are normally expected to be diffusive in their movement, operating as individual particles – in other words, they don’t gain momentum as a...
One of the most important ways in which artificial intelligence algorithms are proving beneficial is in diagnosing disease much faster than mere human beings can –...