19 July 2022
Coningsby in Lincolnshire has provisionally recorded a temperature of 40.3°C, an event that would be extremely unlikely without climate change, and scientists warn that heatwaves will only get worse
18 July 2022
A galaxy caught in the distant background of the James Webb Space Telescope's first "deep field" image could help astronomers understand the chemistry of the early universe
18 July 2022
Four European bison have been released into ancient woodland in Kent, where they should transform the ecosystem
15 July 2022
The first deep-field image from the James Webb Space Telescope is full of distant galaxies with their light warped by gravity, and astronomers are already using them to hunt dark matter
15 July 2022
Tiny robots made of metallic powder stuck to plastic tape and controlled by magnetic fields could one day crawl inside internal organs and repair injuries
15 July 2022
Evidence suggests covid-19 infections can lower sperm counts for months, and that the virus can occasionally be found in semen and may even directly bind to sperm cells
14 July 2022
The Y chromosome, involved in sex determination, mysteriously disappears from some men’s immune cells as they get older – and that could be fatal
14 July 2022
After an unexpectedly large micrometeoroid hit one mirror segment of the James Webb Space Telescope, its operators are considering not pointing it in some directions to minimise future head-on collisions
14 July 2022
Genetic analysis of a woman’s skull from 14,000 years ago found in south-west China suggests she was related to an ancient population that migrated to North America from east Asia
14 July 2022
It was thought that spongy bone in woodpeckers’ heads cushioned their brains from hard knocks, but in fact their skulls are stiff like a hammer
