An illustration showing the natural motor of a bacteriumRAMON ANDRADE 3DCIENCIA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A living motor made by combining different parts from bacteria is one of the smallest ever built, and could one day power tiny robots. Many types of...
Thylacines, or Tasmanian tigers, went extinct in 1936Colossal Biosciences The genome of the extinct thylacine has been nearly completely sequenced, de-extinction company Colossal has announced. It says the genome is more than 99.9 per cent complete, with just 45 gaps...
Congratulations, it’s twinsK. Miller, R. Hurt/Caltech/IPAC An odd star that has confused researchers for decades now makes sense – it turns out not to be a single star but two companions. “It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t...
Neuroscience seems an unlikely place to find fundamental truths that could apply to everything in the universe. Brains are specific objects that do things that few, if any, other objects in the universe seem capable of. They perceive. They act....
Quantum computers need programmersIBM Quantum computers, which promise to revolutionise everything from chemistry to cancer research, aren’t quite ready for the mainstream yet – but that hasn’t prevented the emergence of a new breed of quantum software developers. “Writing a...
Mark Twain famously (although possibly apocryphally) said we should never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Archaelogists might beg to differ, particularly when the story in question is a dramatic rewriting of human history that...
A wild bottlenose dolphin having a health assessmentTodd Speakman/National Marine Mammal Foundation, MMPA/ESA Permit No. 18786-03 and 24359 CC-BY 4.0 Dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico are inhaling microplastics, which could lead to lung problems. Researchers at the College of...
Claims about the sustainability of fish farms have been vastly overstatedVIKEN KANTARCI/AFP via Getty Images It has been claimed that fish farming is a sustainable source of food that will help us feed the growing global human population while protecting...
The 2-metre-long Aesculapian snake is native to warmer parts of EuropeSzymon Bartosz/Alamy Britain has only three native snakes but a fourth species, the 2-metre-long Aesculapian snake, is breeding in the wild in at least three places – by exploiting the...
Wildfires that forced thousands to evacuate and destroyed hundreds of homes and other structures; heat waves that smothered the Southwest in sweltering, deadly heat for weeks on end; and hurricanes that have wrought catastrophic damage, nearly wiping away whole towns—these...
