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
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
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
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
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
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
22 November 2019
Doctors are using artificial intelligence in dozens of hospitals to help them make sense of MRI images of the heart
22 November 2019
Swarms of robots could help map out underground networks and detect leaks as they float through pipes
21 November 2019
Music appears to be made from the same simple building blocks of pitches and chords around the world, upending the prevailing view that universals don’t exist
21 November 2019
Minerals containing water can exist at much higher pressures than we knew, so they could be hiding oceans’ worth of water deep within giant planets
