Low cloud cover has been expanding since 1979, reflecting more sunlight into space, but scientists expect that trend to ...

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it ...

Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a ...

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Neither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely. Fresh hints that they exist are raising hopes that ...

Yet another unwanted temperature record may have been set in 2023. According to a preliminary estimate, the global average surface temperature on 17 November was more than 2°C above pre-industrial ...

Antimatter has finally hit the road. Around 100 antiprotons took a 20-minute trip on the back of a lorry around the CERN particle physics laboratory’s campus near Geneva, Switzerland. This ...

Colin Barras is a science writer focusing on life sciences. He has a BSc in geology from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, a PhD on the Jurassic ...

An ancient continent that was once sandwiched between India and Madagascar now lies scattered on the bottom of the Indian Ocean. The first clues to the continent’s existence came when some parts of ...

You may find you work better in a coffee shop than in your bedroom, but perhaps not for the reasons you’ve been led to believe. Instead of the noise and bustle stimulating your imagination, your ...

Coffee improves short-term memory and speeds up reaction times by acting on the brain’s prefrontal cortex, according to a new study. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to ...

The author of space opera Slow Gods digs into the details of exploring what happens when a planet is about to be destroyed by ...