27 July 2022
Murujuga in Western Australia holds more than 2 million engravings that have been added over at least 50,000 years - and may provide a glimpse into how the region's climate and vegetation have changed
26 July 2022
Feeding robot works out when people are ready for their next mouthful by watching for social signs, which could make it easier to socialise for those who can’t use their arms
25 July 2022
Efforts to make flying greener mostly count carbon dioxide emissions only, but modelling shows this ignores 90 per cent of future flights’ contribution to climate change
25 July 2022
Astronomers thought that galaxies in the early universe would mostly be shapeless blobs, but an analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests around half are disc-shaped like the Milky Way
25 July 2022
The World Health Organization has declared the spread of monkeypox to be a "public health emergency of international concern", its highest alert level
25 July 2022
Colorado potato beetles lose almost all the mitochondria in their muscles during hibernation, but regrow them in time to start flying in the spring
22 July 2022
Researchers experimenting with OpenAI's text-to-image tool, DALL-E 2, noticed that it seems to covertly be adding words such as "black" and "female" to image prompts, seemingly in an effort to diversify its output
22 July 2022
New gene-editing approach could be used to eliminate disease-causing mutations from pedigree dog breeds or even from clones of individual dogs
22 July 2022
A laser fired from a tower on a mountain seems to have redirected lightning in the sky and could be used to make storm clouds discharge lightning safely
22 July 2022
The "corvid palace", a renowned UK centre for research on intelligence in crows and their kin that was due to be shut down this month, has been saved by a campaign kick-started by a New Scientist article
