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Average months now feel cold thanks to climate change
People in the UK love discussing the weather. For the first two weeks of June 2024,...
We’ve discovered the world’s trees absorb methane – so forests are even more important in the climate fight than we thought
Tree bark in the world’s forests absorbs the greenhouse gas methane, my colleagues...
Your world is different from a pigeon’s – but a new theory explains how we can still live in the same reality
The human eye registers three colours of light: red, green and blue. But pigeons...
Athletes looking for a competitive edge may find it within their gut microbiome
When milliseconds can mean the difference between silver and gold, endurance athletes...
What do genes have to do with psychology? They likely influence your behavior more than you realize
As a species, humans like to think that we are fully in control of our decisions...
Biodiversity loss impacts our societies and economies – How can Europe confront the spread of invasive species?
Biological invasions are the main cause of biodiversity loss, but they can also...
Methane emissions are the low-hanging fruit of the climate transition
Methane is well known for coming from ruminants digestive system. What is less known...
SpaceX space junk crashed onto Saskatchewan farmland, highlighting a potential impending disaster
There is no doubt that satellites and space technologies bring tremendous benefits...
The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments
When you push “start” on your microwave or computer, the device flips right on –...
How astronomers work out the size of the Solar System
The size of the solar system is defined by the volume of space over which the Sun’s...
Bigger animals don’t always have the biggest brains relative to body size – new research
Scientists have long believed that, generally speaking, the bigger an animal is,...
Could people turn Mars into another Earth? Here’s what it would take to transform its barren landscape into a life-friendly world
Is it possible that one day we could make Mars like Earth? – Tyla, age 16, Mississippi
Introducing Vitamin Sea – a new series exploring how our connection with the ocean shapes marine conservation
Our health is intrinsically linked with that of the ocean
Remembering Wallace J. Nichols: the blue mind scientist who explained our human connection to water
He’d often give people a blue marble — representing planet Earth, as seen from space...
Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe has aged
The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh millions...
Meteorites from Mars help scientists understand the red planet’s interior
Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids...