The Bayeux Tapestry tells only the winner's story—but the other side can be found in old English texts

As the Bayeux Tapestry comes to London, the year 1066 and the Norman Conquest are in the spotlight. The tapestry—an embroidered cloth nearly 70 meters long, created soon after the events it ...

Some technologies use accelerated natural processes to capture carbon, but can they store it durably?

Natural geological processes have been regulating Earth's climate for millions of years. Accelerated versions of these ...

Heat vulnerability follows more than temperature, and this global map exposes the overlooked fault lines

A Nature Sustainability paper titled "A multidimensional assessment of Systemic Cooling Poverty in the Global South," ...

Wildfire risk is now spreading to cool climates like the Scottish Highlands and Irish uplands

The most destructive wildfire season on record in Europe was in 2025, with more than 1 million hectares burned and tens of ...

AI makes a major breakthrough in a math problem that had stumped experts for decades

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...

South China Sea coral reefs reveal carbon stores rivaling mangroves and seagrasses

A collaborative research team has revealed the long-overlooked carbon storage potential of coral reef ecosystems and how reef ...

Arctic thaw unleashes mining-like pollution across hundreds Arctic waterways

Thawing permafrost is rapidly transforming dozens of Arctic streams into acidic, metal-laden waterways, according to new ...

Sequential antibiotic strategy can weaken dangerous pathogens

A research team from Kiel University has demonstrated which specific cellular mechanisms lead to the targeted weakening of ...

Why we live alone—and what it means for the climate and our sense of community

Solo living in your own home places a greater strain on the planet's resources than living with others, as everyone needs ...

Just outside Jupiter, one region may have forged six meteorite parent bodies

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust ...

Coral refuges in Western Australia resist 2025 bleaching through record marine heat

The team of scientists from James Cook University, University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University surveyed coral reefs in the West Australian Houtman Abrolhos group of islands (HAI), ...

Rice feeds billions of people—but its role in fueling climate change is growing

Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it ...