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Governments should be aiming to trigger technological, economic and social tipping points that accelerate climate action, according to a major report

Spinning locusts in a centrifuge to mimic hypergravity seems to cause their exoskeletons to adapt, giving them stiffer legs – but too much gravity and they […]

We are getting close to triggering irreversible changes that will have catastrophic effects worldwide, according to a major report on tipping points in […]

A scientific analysis of history reveals that societies are becoming more resilient to collapse – and shows how to successfully navigate crises, says […]

A single dose of a novel antibody medication can bind to fentanyl and prevent the opioid from triggering potentially life-threatening symptoms, research in […]

Senolytic drugs can clear away worn and damaged “zombie” immune cells that are resistant to dying, which may help treat multiple sclerosis, according to […]

The past year gave us thrilling missions to Jupiter and the moon, stunning images that captured the universe like it’s never been seen before, and a few […]

A machine-learning algorithm was able to tell which estate 80 Bordeaux red wines came from with 100 per cent accuracy by assessing their chemical signatures

In areas of the sea affected by bottom trawling, marine life is more abundant in and around shipwrecks, suggesting they should be considered important […]

Despite urgent calls to slash fossil fuel use to meet climate targets, the Global Carbon Budget report shows that 2023 emissions will be about 1.1 per cent […]

A female megamouth shark was found in the Philippines with one pup alongside her and six fetuses inside her body

A device that was implanted into the brains of people with traumatic brain injuries substantially improved their cognitive function a year later, a small study […]

Artificial intelligence may never reach its full potential without a body to interact with the physical world. Roboticist Josh Bongard says that the push for […]

To hold and cool computer servers, China has installed a 1300-tonne watertight cabin on the shallow seafloor – it is the first of 100 planned for an […]

Gene variants that have an unusally large effect on some people's heights have been discovered by analysing the genomes of more than 300,000 individuals

IBM has revealed two quantum computers. One is the second largest ever made and the other produces fewer errors than any quantum computer the company has built […]

Vaccinations could be made less painful by treating skin with a vaccine-laden liquid and using ultrasound to push it into the body

The newfound Giant Coma Stream of stars stretches nearly 1.7 million light years across the cosmos, and it could have holes blasted through it by clumps of […]

Carbon dioxide is the dominant driver of climate change, but countries convening at COP28 are expected to make agreements to reduce methane and other often […]

There may be several reasons why cannabis encourages people to eat, including the fact that the psychoactive compound in the drug affects the neurons that […]

If another star passed close to our solar system, there is a small chance that Earth could crash into another planet, get stolen by the interloping star or […]

OpenAI’s developer tool for its GPT-4 large language model can be misused to trick the AI into providing information to aid would-be terrorists, and fixing […]

People found a nasal spray painkiller more effective when it caused a slight burning sensation. This suggests that deliberately increasing some drugs' unwanted […]

Edibles, vapes and joints all contain the same psychoactive compounds, but the effects they have on the body vary

It looks likely that the world will pass 1.5°C of warming in the 2030s, but current climate definitions would only make this failure official 10 years later, […]