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Robots are about to overtake armed soldiers as the...
Uncrewed ground vehicles have already been tested for defending the front line by the Ukrainian mili...
Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of th...
Scrape marks inside a skull and sharpened limb bones in a set of remains found in Scotland may be ev...
Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hu...
A complex ecosystem of woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been elucidated by studying t...
The last-ditch plan to save coral reefs from utter...
Bleaching has devastated reefs around the world, raising fears of an irreversible shift. Yet new int...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site stayed hot f...
Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread de...
You don't need to worry about recursive-self-impro...
Anthropic has warned that recursive-self-improving AI could be on the horizon, but the truth is the ...
What really happened when ancient humans migrated ...
The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except...
What is a ‘normal’ memory slowdown, and when shoul...
Lapses in memory are a normal part of ageing but can also be signs of dementia. Here’s how to distin...
Wildlife thrives in solar farm built on restored p...
A diverse range of bird species has been recorded at a solar park on rewetted peatland in Germany, s...
Can Apple and Google stop children from sharing ex...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned tech firms, including Apple and Google, that they must vol...
Half the world's reservoirs could be clogged up wi...
Each decade the world is losing over 7 per cent of its freshwater storage capacity to sediment build...
Understanding anorexia’s grip on the brain could u...
One-third of people with anorexia nervosa don’t recover and treatment has remained stagnant for year...
Unpicking endometriosis reveals how it affects mor...
Endometriosis is usually thought of as a gynaecological condition, but a huge study shows it has lin...
You could get some of the benefits of sleep withou...
Mice seemed to reap some of the benefits of sleep by having their brain activity stimulated while th...
Are we getting to the point where it's safe to gen...
A team in the US has reported promising results after using an improved form of CRISPR to gene-edit ...
Cuts to US ocean programme will hinder monitoring ...
Scientists warn that the Trump Administration's push to dismantle a vital network of ocean sensing i...
Flood of AI 'garbage' is pushing open-source devel...
The modern world depends on open-source software maintained by volunteers, but the added demands of ...
A chromosome from a frozen rat has been resurrecte...
Mice that contain cells with an added rat chromosome have been created by scientists. The next step ...
