Science
Tiny structures in rock may be fossils of earliest known...
A centimetre-long branching structure found in a rock dated to at least 3.75 billion...
Women in a 19th-century Dutch farming village didn't breastfeed
An analysis of bones from about 500 individuals who died between 1830 and 1867 in...
AI strips out city noise to improve earthquake monitoring...
The sounds of cities can make it hard to discern the underground signals that indicate...
Earliest evidence for Maya calendar may have been found...
The earliest evidence of calendar use by the Maya may have been found in the remains...
Blind Mexican cave fish are developing cave-specific accents
The Mexican tetra has evolved to live in a number of dark caves – and now we know...
Brain regions linked to empathy bigger in monkeys with...
A study of free-ranging rhesus macaques found that those with more social partners...
Antibiotic-resistant acne could be treated by phage therapy
The bacterium that causes acne is becoming resistant to antibiotics, but a study...
People tend to believe populations are more diverse than...
In 12 psychological experiments with a total of 942 participants, 82 per cent overestimated...
Covid-19 news: UK is first in Europe to approve Valneva...
A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews...
Driverless cars can be tricked into seeing red traffic...
Aiming lasers at the cameras used in driverless cars caused them to incorrectly...
Tardigrades can hitch-hike on snails to travel longer distances
Although they are incredibly resilient, tardigrades are also too small to travel...
Releasing sterile male fruit flies in fields cuts crop...
Sterile male flies released in fields mate with females that then lay far fewer...
Gravitational waves could let us find tiny black holes...
A primordial black hole falling into a neutron star would sink to its centre and...
Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough review
David Attenborough joins palaeontologist Robert DePalma at the Tanis site in North...
Drones with high-tech sensors track disease in Italy's...
A new high-tech strategy will help monitor crops for infection with Xylella fastidiosa,...
Russia and Ukraine are both weaponising mobile phones to...
Mobile phones ping signals to nearby communications towers, allowing both Ukrainian...
