Our toothbrushes host huge numbers of viruses as well as bacteriaKathrin Ziegler/Getty Images Hundreds of viruses that infect bacteria have been found on toothbrushes and showerheads. This isn’t something to be worried about, though, because the viruses aren’t harmful to...
Hurricane Milton approaches FloridaCIRA Another one? Hurricane Milton, which is barrelling towards Florida’s west coast, is the fifth hurricane to form over the Atlantic in the past two weeks, arriving on the heels of devastating floods brought by Hurricane Helene....
The Nobel prize committee announce the chemistry prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in StockholmJONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images The 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work...
October 9, 20244 min readA Century-Old Question Is Still Revealing Answers in Fundamental MathMathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century agoBy Rachel CrowellA boy at a blackboard working...
The Swarm of Life by Shane GrossImage by Shane Gross BIRDS of a feather flock together – and so do these western toad tadpoles, who were snapped massing beneath lily pads in Cedar Lake on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, by photographer Shane...
Around 41,000 years ago, the very last Neanderthal took their final breath. At that moment, we became the only remaining hominins, the sole survivors of the once diverse family of bipedal apes. We will never know exactly when or where this...
Copies of the same artificial intelligence model can work togetherEugene Mymrin/Getty Images We can struggle to maintain working relationships when our social group grows too large, but it seems that artificial intelligence models may not face the same limitation, suggesting...
How will your brain react to that hot sauce?Ihor Butko/Alamy Anticipating pleasure or pain before tasting hot sauce appears to influence how the brain responds to the spicy flavour. “This has broader implications beyond spicy food,” says Yi Luo at...
October 8, 20243 min readEurope’s Hera Mission Launches to Visit an Asteroid Smacked by NASAHera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, an asteroid deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraftBy Elizabeth Howell & SPACE.comESA’s Hera mission lifted off on a SpaceX...
A wildfire burns in California on 30 July 2024David McNew/Getty Images A growing number of the planet’s “vital signs” have reached record levels due to climate change and other environmental threats, according to a stark report by a group of...
