Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2
A glacier meets the sea in Dickson Fjord, Greenland Jane Rix/Alamy The Arctic will retain about 1.5°C of warming even
Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits
In physics, breakthroughs are rare. Experiments are slow, expensive and often end up refining, rather than rewriting, our understanding of
Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life
Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known visitor to our solar system from elsewhere International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; J.
Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe
The bubonic plague arrived in Europe in the late 1340s CPA Media / Alamy The Black Death, a bubonic plague
A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the origins of all life
In 1944, Erwin Schrödinger published a book called What Is Life?. The physicist, famous for his alive-and-dead cat, clearly relished
Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may be behind tooth loss
Maintaining good oral hygiene may be particularly important during pregnancy Kondoros Eva Katalin/Getty Images “Gain a child, lose a tooth”,
Hoverflies: The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops
It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of
Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen
Artist’s impression of a field of Population III stars 100 million years after the big bang NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani
Why quasicrystals shouldn’t exist but are turning up in strange places
In autumn 1945, Lincoln LaPaz crouched over a patch of scorched ground in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New
Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve crucial ocean current
Melting ice in Antarctica could have an impact on ocean currents JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images While the melting of