17 April 2023
Arthropods and molluscs dwelling on plastic and other rubbish in the middle of the Pacific Ocean seem to be part of a new type of ecological community inadvertently created by humans
14 April 2023
If you’ve been on a playground swing, you may intuitively know when to lean back to get it going higher – physicists have confirmed that perfectly timed leaning produces the most height
13 April 2023
Forests in eastern Africa started turning into grassland 10 million years earlier than previously thought, which may have driven the evolution of upright apes
12 April 2023
A study of an ancient bone from Spain with a strange pattern of notches hints that it was used by early Homo sapiens in Europe as a punch board for making holes in leather
12 April 2023
The front fins of skates emerge from their heads as huge wings and now we know how they can develop in this way
12 April 2023
Graphene can change its electrical resistance in response to a magnetic field quicker than other materials, such as graphite or bismuth, which could one day change how we store data
11 April 2023
Wind and solar reached a record 12 per cent of global electricity generation in 2022 - and look set to keep growing
11 April 2023
Designed to look like a human hand, a soft robotic device uses pressure sensors and artificial intelligence to learn how to prevent an object from slipping out of its grasp
11 April 2023
Jupiter’s icy moons are thought to host buried oceans that could have the right conditions for life, and the European Space Agency’s JUICE mission is about to go find out if they do
