Science
Genetically modified tobacco plant produces cocain...
Researchers have reproduced the entire biochemical pathway for how coca plants make cocaine in anoth...
Promising universal flu vaccine could protect agai...
An mRNA vaccine has been found to induce antibody responses against all 20 known subtypes of influen...
Candy-like mixture can print patterns on microscop...
Patterns of microscopic discs, rings or letters can be added to microrobots or stretchy electronics ...
Low traffic neighbourhood schemes cut air pollutio...
Schemes that aim to reduce traffic through certain streets have been accused of increasing air pollu...
BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide prot...
Filmmakers used an AI to swap the faces of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong for those of acto...
Newborn female mice live longer if they smell olde...
The scent of older females causes young female mice to reach puberty later and extends their lifespa...
NASA’s Orion capsule captures gorgeous close-up pi...
The Orion capsule has made its closest fly-by of the moon and sent back detailed images of its surfa...
Vaccine to prevent UTIs could be taken as a dissol...
Recurrent UTIs could one day be prevented with a vaccine instead of antibiotics if promising results...
Prosthetic leg can 'change gears' to make going up...
A robotic leg with a big toe and motors that can "change gear" like a bicycle can enable a wearer to...
The blessing and the curse of the axion’s rise in ...
Since the Large Hadron Collider turned up nothing in its search for supersymmetry, physicists have t...
Orchidomania: A history of our obsession with orch...
These images from a new illustrated book chart the long human love affair with orchids, the incredib...
The Darkness Manifesto review: Why we need to turn...
Light pollution disrupts animals and has also been linked to human ailments. Bat scientist Johan Ekl...
Where might James Bond go next, in terms of scienc...
From Goldfinger to No Time to Die, James Bond has long showcased the latest tech advances. Might 007...
Good Night Oppy review: Hybrid doc is the best Pix...
The incredible true story of Mars rover Opportunity turns into a moving, inspirational and downright...
Utama review: An unsettling look at climate change...
The threat of climate change permeates this visually stunning, memorable film about a couple living ...
A volunteer project used GPS to detect a North Kor...
An open-source intelligence project is using GPS satellites to track intercontinental ballistic miss...
We may finally know how blazars act as cosmic part...
Supermassive black holes that beam powerful jets of matter towards Earth, known as blazars, accelera...
The hunt for the lost ancestral language of Europe...
We've long known there was an ancient language that gave rise to English, Bengali and dozens of othe...
ESA's new astronauts include former Paralympian ru...
The European Space Agency has chosen an astronaut with a physical disability for the first time, as ...
Immediate skin-to-skin contact advised for prematu...
The World Health Organization has changed its stance on "kangaroo care" for premature or small newbo...
Modern humans evolved a 'selfish' X chromosome aft...
The chromosome may contain regions that promote their DNA's spread by killing sperm that carry Y chr...
Bustards may use plants to treat STIs during the b...
Male great bustards seek out two toxic plants during the birds' breeding season, and extracts from t...
Flu, RSV and cost of living will all harm UK child...
Seasonal infections are set to spike, while the cost-of-living crisis is also expected to affect som...
Specific brain markers could help diagnose childre...
Physical differences in the brains of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and those...
A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Sibe...
Seven viruses from the Siberian permafrost have been revived and replicated themselves in the lab – ...
Oldest army ant found in 35-million-year-old Balti...
An unexpected discovery in a piece of amber stored at Harvard University since the 1930s reveals tha...
Physicists have designed a urinal that drastically...
Scientists used observations of the angle at which dogs urinate and laboratory tests with jets of fl...
Why the Colorado river is drying up – and what we ...
The Colorado river is the lifeblood of the US Southwest, but today it is drastically depleted due to...
COP27: Absence of clear vision stalled progress at...
A sense of stagnation pervaded the summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, as negotiators failed to reach ...
JWST has spotted chemical reactions in an exoplane...
Astronomers analysing data from the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted signs of chemical reacti...
Meta's board game-playing AI can pass as a human i...
An AI developed by researchers at Meta convincingly negotiated with humans while playing an online v...
We finally know in detail how salt dissolves in wa...
A machine learning model has revealed how crystals of sodium chloride slowly weaken and then rapidly...
What are climate summits actually for, and how can...
The lack of progress on cutting carbon emissions at COP27 has drawn criticism, but climate summits m...
Why do seagulls have dark wings? It may help them ...
Gliding birds tend to have long and thin wings, but seagulls seem to have a trick that lets them soa...
Quantum city simulation shows how to make Paris-si...
A simulated version of Paris where universities and telecommunication hubs are connected by a quantu...
