Complex systems, be they living beings or fundamental particles, need to have enough structure to hang together along with ...

Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has ...

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

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

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

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

The best treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) might be antivirals that target the Epstein-Barr virus. Pharmaceutical companies are now being called on to develop such drugs after researchers studied ...

An ancient Maya astronomer-mathematician has been identified for the first time along with his complex calculations made around 1200 years ago, predicting the orbital cycles of Mars and Venus. “This ...

In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of ...

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 ...

David Hambling is a freelance science and technology journalist and author based in South London. His non-fiction books include Weapons Grade, Swarm Troopers: How small drones will conquer the world ...

Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance technology journalist and author of YouTubers: How YouTube shook up TV and created a new generation of stars and TikTok Boom: China's dynamite app and the superpower ...