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Tooth analysis reveals ancient Iberian leader was female

6 July 2023

Molecular evidence has revealed that a person buried with lavish goods over 4000 years ago was female, not male as previously thought

Watch a transforming robot roll, crawl, stand up and fly

27 June 2023

Inspired by the way animals use different modes to get around, a robot known as M4 has appendages that can operate as wheels, hands or propellers

Cosmic rays help navigate underground in first real-world test

15 June 2023

Particles produced by cosmic rays hitting Earth's atmosphere, called muons, have been proposed as an alternative to GPS navigation that would work underground - and now it has been tested for real

Tam Pà Ling cave in northern Laos, where several human fossils dating back tens of thousands of years have been found

Fossils in Laos cave imply modern humans were in Asia 86,000 years ago

13 June 2023

Human skull and shinbone fragments found in a cave in northern Laos suggest modern humans may have been in South-East Asia between 68,000 and 86,000 years ago, considerably further back than the previous estimates of around 50,000 years

Microscopy of cotton (red) and polyester (black) fibers collected from tumble dryer exhaust. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Fabric conditioners reduce the release of microfibres in tumble dryers

6 April 2022

Tumble-drying clothes produces microfibre pollution, but this is almost halved by using a tumble dryer sheet and an anti-wrinkle fabric conditioner

Rice and maize yields boosted up to 10 per cent by CRISPR gene editing

24 March 2022

It is possible to significantly boost the yield of rice and maize using CRISPR gene editing, trials in farm fields show

China’s Zhurong Mars rover finds hints landscape was shaped by water

7 March 2022

The first reported findings from China’s Mars rover suggest the plain it is exploring was shaped by winds – and perhaps also by water

Mars may have been habitable millions of years later than we thought

2 February 2022

Analysis of minerals in a Martian meteorite suggest that the planet may have begun to be hospitable for life 30 million years later than previously thought