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News, research analysis and evidence-based explanation. 20 stories in this section.
A new study sheds light on the long-standing debate about the foot structure of the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, suggesting it may have been more monkey-like than …
Artemev was funding ageing research before 2008, but the law-enforcement confrontation around Euroset pushed his life and capital decisively out of Russia. His later science portfolio grew from that British …
A new analysis of federal lobbying disclosures finds that lobbyists working for fossil fuel companies also represent more than 300 local governments seeking funding to recover from climate-related damage.
New analysis finds that the climate damage from developing the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields would cost the UK between £119bn and £336bn, far exceeding the £28.7bn economic …
A growing labor movement is fighting to secure good clean energy jobs in the US, even as the Trump administration rolls back climate policies and attacks wind power. Union workers …
Readers responding to a recent essay propose that the absence of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations may stem from a lack of accessible fossil fuels on other planets, which are necessary …
Researchers have finally explained why domestic cats carry unusually large numbers of lipid droplets in their kidneys, a puzzle that has persisted for nearly 110 years.
Roberto Ragazzoni, president of Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics, has received the Gamow Medal from Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University in recognition of his contributions to astrophysics, adaptive optics, …
Richard Tice's comments on enjoying extreme heat draw sharp criticism from economists and scientists, who warn that inaction on climate change will damage both the economy and the planet.
Britain faces its hottest, driest summer on record with nearly 3,000 deaths, followed by predictions of a wet winter — a pattern scientists call climate whiplash that will intensify in …
Carlos Alcaraz announced he will return to competition at the US Open, where he is the defending champion, after recovering from a right wrist injury that kept him off the …
Whole-brain representational analysis separated fear from anger and sadness in awake pet dogs, while a localized region mainly captured the broader positive-negative divide.
A major earthquake has killed more than 200 people in western Colombia. Aftershocks, weakened structures and the region’s active tectonic setting shape the continuing risk.
Laboratory studies suggest that gentle touch can soften negative emotional responses, slow heart rate and help couples recover from conflict. The evidence does not support a universal 40–50% boost in …
Aging research has moved from mice into human trials. The likeliest 2050 outcome is not immortality, but a stack of therapies that may add healthy years — with cost and …
Daylight saving time does not create daylight; it moves an hour of it from morning to evening on the social clock. A century of experiments shows modest and uneven energy …
A 2026 study of Goldman Sachs’ Instagram adds a research angle to changing interview advice: corporate clothing is not merely personal style but part of how organizations construct identity.
A 2026 longitudinal study of 49 university students found better selective and distributed attention after 120 hours of action gaming, alongside resting-state EEG changes. The absence of a control group …
An MIT-led research team used fast radio bursts and galaxy survey data to locate the universe's missing ordinary matter, finding it in diffuse halos extending millions of light-years from galaxies.
Scientists report that a carnivorous plant in China supports Charles Darwin's 150-year-old hypothesis that plants eat prey to survive in nutrient-poor environments.
