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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 05: Young protestors attend the Fridays For Future COP26 Scotland March on November 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Day Six of the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow will focus on youth and public empowerment. Outside the COP26 site, on the streets of Glasgow, the

We can't let short-term crises derail efforts to tame climate change

18 May 2022

Amid war, energy shortages and inflation spikes, nations are showing little sign of making good on the their emissions promises. That must change

DD57G8 Elena Polisano keeps a hive of honey bees on the roof of the Three Stags pub in Lambeth in London

The urban beekeeping boom is hurting wild pollinator species

18 May 2022

The recent global trend for urban apiary amounts to "bee-washing" that detracts from efforts to reverse the decline in wild pollinators, argues Graham Lawton

Claims that girls have a 'natural' aversion to physics are harmful

18 May 2022

Girls are just as capable as boys in science and mathematics, but ingrained attitudes are stopping female students from engaging, says Maria Rossini

Cryptocurrency mining is still on the rise despite huge price drops

17 May 2022

The value of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has plummeted in recent weeks, but the computer power devoted to the industry continues to rise

Plan to feed phone data of NHS mental health patients to AI mothballed

16 May 2022

An AI was designed to predict when people are at risk of having a mental health crisis, based on their health records, but plans to extend the project with mobile phone data seem to have been scrapped

TOPSHOT - Activists from the climate change group Extinction Rebellion (XR) take part in a protest in Glasgow on November 8, 2021, during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. - The COP26 climate talks resuming Monday have so far unfolded on parallel planes, with high-level announcements stage-managed by host country Britain during week one riding roughshod over a laborious UN process built on consensus among nearly 200 countries. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP) (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

COP26: No countries have delivered on promise to improve climate plans

16 May 2022

In Glasgow, 196 countries promised to "revisit and strengthen" their plans for curbing emissions, but there is little sign of this happening before the next talks in November

Sweater includes a wireless charger to keep your gadgets topped up

13 May 2022

A sweater containing tubes filled with a liquid metal alloy can charge up wearable electronic devices

Genetically engineered bacteria have learned to play tic-tac-toe

13 May 2022

E. coli bacteria modified to act like electronic components called memristors can be set up to act as a simple neural network and trained to play noughts and crosses

Clever birds forced to find new homes as Cambridge lab faces closure

13 May 2022

A seminal research lab that has revolutionised our understanding of the minds of rooks and jays is set to be closed down as funding dries up

This image shows the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) looking up at the Milky Way as well as the location of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our galactic centre. Highlighted in the box is the image of Sagittarius A* taken by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration. Located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, ALMA is the most sensitive of all the observatories in the EHT array, and ESO is a co-owner of ALMA on behalf of its European Member States.

What's next for Event Horizon Telescope after its black hole pictures?

12 May 2022

Now that the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released its image of the Milky Way's black hole, the team is focusing on making movies of the two photographed black holes and finding other distant black holes large enough to study