Researchers studying hydrothermal vents in the depths of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench have found tiny inorganic structures performing energy conversions associated with life. There
A new crowd of deep-sea weirdos and alien-like lifeforms have been captured on camera by scientists exploring the depths of the ocean around American Samoa.
We live in unprecedented times. With global average temperatures soaring to levels last recorded… well, never, extreme weather events set to disrupt the lives of
Early modern Europe was no place for witches. Over the course of about 300 years up until the end of the 18th century, some 90,000
Researchers have released the most accurate and consistent map of the magnetic fields in the Sun’s corona – its tenuous but incredibly hot atmosphere. The
What a week it has been for the Sun and Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). The Sun has released multiple highly energetic flares, including the most
Even the longest-lived parts of continents don’t survive forever, which is why geologists and paleontologists have so much trouble reconstructing Earth’s first billion years. The
The scale of Hurricane Milton, the Category 5 storm currently predicted to make landfall as a Category 3 storm along the west-central coast of Florida
The winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are David Baker for computational protein design, plus Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for an
The Natural History Museum, London’s Wildlife Photographer Of The Year competition has announced its winner – and the breathtaking snap offers the chance to immerse
It’s not every day you see the words “beaver” and “legal battle” in the same sentence. Then again, a situation that involves a rescued beaver
Where in space would you explore if money were no object? What burning scientific question would you want to see answered? Professor Brian Cox has
Thunderstorms increased radiation at a mountaintop measuring site far in excess of background levels from cosmic rays. Observations included electrons moving close enough to the
The proliferation of images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is problematic in multiple ways. AI models have faced allegations of being trained using stolen art,
Humans individually may love birds, but perhaps only amphibians have suffered more from our rise. An attempt to tally up the avian score has revealed
Ever wondered how large the Sun is compared to the Earth? We break down exactly how many times the Earth could fit inside the Sun
The 2024 State of the Climate Report makes for some damning reading. Along with highlighting how our planet has been pushed to the brink of
