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Scientists at the University of Würzburg in Germany have found a way to produce and isolate oxoboranes, an unusual class of molecules that researchers have considered…

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have discovered an unusual double ring of planetary debris around the white dwarf J1328−1450. The…

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has discovered two previously unknown satellite systems of the Milky Way in early observations covering just 7% of the…

Europe’s natural landscape may have been far more open and varied than the dense, unbroken forests often imagined by people picturing the continent 100,000 or even…

A study led by the University of Bath estimates that carbon dioxide produced by human metabolism increased by 74% between 1985 and 2015, reaching 2.05 billion…

Three adults with drug-resistant epilepsy experienced a reduction of more than 90% in their monthly seizures after researchers injected a gene-carrying virus directly into the brain…

Scientists still cannot fully explain how physical activity in the brain produces subjective experience, but research is beginning to clarify how consciousness can be measured, how…

Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in the US midterm elections, while new research explored bacteria-killing toothbrushes, the origins of Celtic and Germanic languages,…

Four books published in 2026 explore the history of herbal medicine, the cultural meaning of smell, the physics of time and an additional work titled Otherwise…

A new preprint platform is paying scientists to review other researchers’ work, reviving a debate over whether peer review should be compensated. XSci, launched in September,…

In early October, OpenAI posted more than 700 AI-generated mathematical manuscripts in an online public repository, prompting both excitement and concern across the mathematics community. If…

An artificial intelligence agent can devise detailed instructions for a robotic arm and test them in a virtual laboratory. Credit: Jiaru Bai and Yuchi Zhao, University…

Archaeologists have identified 280 Paleolithic art motifs, including 55 animal figures, in Cova de la Font Major, a tourist cave complex in Catalonia, northeastern Spain. The…

Fifteen miles south of Eilstadzir, a hacker leaves Sindri and walks into a snow-covered, decommissioned cloud data center known as Skýborg. Disguised by a C-skin and…

A Welsh Government decision involving international funding has drawn sharply different reactions from the leaders of the Welsh Conservatives, Welsh Liberal Democrats and Welsh Labour. The…

Britain’s political consensus on reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 has fractured since the target was written into law in 2019. While Labour leader…

Rapamycin, a drug commonly used to prevent organ-transplant rejection, may offer a way to address early brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease. In a University of…

Computer simulations suggest that strong magnetic fields inside white dwarfs could allow some of these stellar remnants to exceed the long-standing Chandrasekhar limit of about 1.4…

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday after nearly 22 years in space, ending a mission that was originally designed to last just…

November 2026 will bring several notable sights to the night sky, including three meteor showers, a close apparent pairing of Mars and Jupiter, a full supermoon…

North Carolina blueberry growers are confronting a destructive longhorn beetle whose underground larvae feed on plant roots and can kill blueberry bushes. Researchers at North Carolina…

Scientists have found chemical traces of blood-derived molecules in 115-million-year-old dinosaur bones, providing the first definitive chemical confirmation of a molecule derived from hemoglobin in fossilized…

Scientists say it is important to foster digital literacy and healthy online habits in children who have grown up using social media. Credit: StockPlanets/E+/Getty Growing evidence…

The self-driving laboratory, called AutoDNA, can analyze the “letters” that make up DNA fragments. Credit: Turtle Rock Science/Science Source/Science Photo Library Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong…

A new geological study led by Professor Duncan Pirie of the University of South Wales challenges the prevailing view that Stonehenge’s six-tonne altar stone came from…

Salt-loving archaea grew for 160 days under laboratory conditions designed to simulate hypothetical underground saline environments on Mars, researchers report. The findings suggest that some Earth…

Forecasts suggest that weakening and eventually reversing winds could produce a major south-southwest sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event, potentially the earliest on record in 75 years…

Delhi’s severe air pollution cannot be addressed by restricting vehicle access, regulating construction and stopping stubble burning alone, experts say. Effective action will require emission-reduction targets…

The history of manual toothbrushes dates back to the Tang Dynasty in China. Credit: Valentyna Yeltsova/Getty Researchers at Peking University in Beijing have developed a battery-free…

More than 1,000 tonnes of sewage sludge was reportedly found stored in the open air at a landfill near Doncaster, prompting action by the Environment Agency…

Hippos in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been affected by an anthrax outbreak for the past month. Credit: Evelyn Hockstein/MCT/Tribune…

Scientists are developing bacteriophages—viruses that infect and destroy bacteria—as a possible treatment for infections that no longer respond to traditional antibiotics. An international group led by…

Forgetting where you parked may be a familiar sign of aging, but scientists are still working to understand why memory becomes less reliable over time. A…

Ancient proteins recovered from the enamel of six Homo erectus teeth suggest that East Asian populations of this early human relative exchanged genes with Denisovans about…

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a membrane that separates crude oil at…

Flexible-work policies intended to support parents and carers at universities can unintentionally reinforce traditional gender roles, according to research published this year. Studies suggest that women…

Buglife and Essex Wildlife Trust have criticized Google’s plans for a data center at the Arena Essex site in Thurrock, warning that the development could damage…

Hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas has been detected in Mars’ thin atmosphere during the planet’s cold aphelion season, when its presence was not expected. Researchers say the…

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured a striking column of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula. Its…

Few people enjoy their first sip of coffee, yet millions eventually crave it. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, say they have identified part…