Tipping points can leave once lush forests dried outPiotr Poznan/Shutterstock AI can predict when complex systems like forests, animal populations or the power grid will suddenly start behaving very differently. Identifying such tipping points may help avert disastrous collapses in...
A researcher plucks a bird as part of an experiment into Neanderthals’ cooking skillsMariana Nabais Archaeologists have cooked and prepared five wild birds using only fire, their hands and stone tools to learn more about the culinary abilities of Neanderthals....
Images from a camera attached to a basking shark before, during and after a collision with a boatBig Fish Lab at Oregon State University. A collision between a boat and a basking shark has been recorded for the first time,...
Jacklyn Gates at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory separating atoms of livermoriumMarilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab 2024 The Regents of the University of California The third-heaviest element in the universe has been made in a way that offers a route for synthesising the...
500-Million-Year-Old ‘Alien Fish Taco’ Was among First Creatures with JawsA bizarre fossil of a Cambrian creature that looked like an “alien fish taco” reveals how a single group with jaws came to account for around 90 percent of all animal...
Shutterstock/Paolo Paradiso For many runners, going fast is the whole point of pulling on their kit. But recently, the opposite approach has been booming: the slow-running movement, in which people meet for social, unhurried jaunts. This might be fun, but surely...
An Oxford PV solar module with layers of perovskite and siliconOxford PV The most efficient solar cell ever made can convert almost half of the sunlight that reaches it into electricity. If widely available, such a powerful cell – with...
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in half to causing a gravitational wave apocalypse – and subjects them to the laws of physics...
One of Earth’s Most Elusive Whales Washes up on New Zealand BeachScientists hope the incredibly rare beaching of a spade-toothed whale will help them learn more about this persistently elusive speciesBy Kate Graham-ShawJim Fyfe and Tūmai Cassidy walk alongside a...
What a Kamala Harris Presidency Would Mean for ScienceAs the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts sayBy Max Kozlov, Mariana Lenharo, Jeff Tollefson & Nature magazineUS Vice President...
