Studying the universe’s origins hint that its beginning has no end
27 November 2019
The cosmos is stranger than we ever imagined and new bubbles of space-time may pop up and grow continuously with no beginning or end, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Fast access to new medicines shouldn’t mean endangering our health
27 November 2019
Agencies like the US Food and Drug Administration speed the approval of some drugs to address urgent needs, but there are signs that the balance between safety and speed isn’t quite right
We still don't know whether vaping is safe or not
27 November 2019
Vaping was once thought to be "95 per cent safer than smoking", but a sudden rise in deaths and injury linked to e-cigarettes is causing some people to reconsider
General election 2019: Why you should think climate change not Brexit
27 November 2019
Brexit may seem important right now, but whoever wins the election will be in charge halfway to 2030 – a crucial time in efforts to limit dangerous warming, says Jacob Aron
UN report reveals how hard it will be to meet climate change targets
26 November 2019
Carbon emissions from human activity have never fallen globally, but to keep global warming to 1.5°C they need to tumble by nearly 8 per cent every year for the next decade
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is healthy despite looking like it’s dying
25 November 2019
The Red Spot on Jupiter seems to be breaking apart, but a computer model suggests the vortex is fine and it’s the clouds above the storm that are being shredded
A blue whale's heart beats just twice a minute when it dives for food
25 November 2019
We have checked the pulse of a wild-living blue whale for the first time and discovered that the animal's heart beats surprisingly slowly while it is feeding
People share fake news online even when they can tell it's not true
24 November 2019
People can easily identify fake news, but may unwittingly share it on social media because they aren't thinking about accuracy. A simple prompt could help solve the problem
We may be closer than we thought to Earth's dangerous tipping points
23 November 2019
We know that the climate can start changing irreversibly if it warms past certain thresholds, and these tipping points may strike unexpectedly soon
The mystery of the mass of the neutrino could soon be solved
22 November 2019
We have a refined estimate for the mass of the neutrino, the most abundant massive particle in the Universe: its mass is 500,000 times less than an electron
