Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies, studying ...

A new kind of CRISPR that destroys cells rather than gene editing them has shown potential for killing sick cells while leaving healthy cells untouched. The technology has largely been tested in cells ...

Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases to roughly 22–28% of the Amazon, ...

Scientists have uncovered more than 1,700 new proteins that could have implications for human diseases, including cancer. Mostly very small, these proteins were found in what's called the "dark ...

Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand ...

Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia. Shivelyuch (also called Shiveluch), the most northerly active ...

In 2024, the Western Australian Museum received a donation. It was a koala skull collected from Moondyne Cave in Margaret ...

Across the UK, working-class boys are navigating an unprecedented convergence of pressures. There are entrenched gaps between ...

Too many white-tailed deer are damaging forests in the U.S. by eating young plants before they can grow, limiting forest regeneration and damaging biodiversity. To mitigate this challenge, the ...

From James Bond movies to water spirits in mythology, the tales of attractive, dangerous female forms that distract the hero ...

A new type of hologram technology has been developed that uses the motion of light as a key, revealing information only under specific conditions. This is gaining attention as a novel approach that ...

We've all been there: staring at a job description or a daunting new project and feeling a cold prickle of dread. You have ...