In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major ...

For more than 20 years, about 4,000 autonomous profiling floats have been drifting through the ocean. They form part of the ...

Every year, billions of migratory birds connect the world's continents, oceans and ecosystems as they undertake epic journeys ...

A startling new study of a little-known, unpublished short story by Alan Turing challenges our understanding of the man who played a key role in cracking the Nazis' Enigma code, developed the ...

Astronomers searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence may have been missing alien signals in part of the radio spectrum that has not recently been explored.

In mammals, males are usually stronger and more competitive than females. Males also show greater inequality in reproductive success—the number of offspring they produce—than females. In spotted ...

Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these strangely undulating, scaly tubes of muscle slithering through the leaf litter.

Fusion at high temperatures powers the sun and, if harnessed, could provide a potential source of energy here on Earth. But controlling fusion reactions has other benefits. The process also generates ...

Dating has entered a new era in which finding a potential soulmate is increasingly shaped by the digital world and, often, by ...

Today, people speak or sign around 7,500 languages. Yet this figure provides only a snapshot of a constantly changing history. How many languages existed before written records? Did agriculture reduce ...

Physicists have discovered a surprisingly simple way to reproduce one of the most fascinating models in modern physics—linked ...

Leiden environmental researchers have mapped the environmental footprint of different diets and revealed which population groups have the greatest impact through their food choices. Their findings ...