SCIENCE
Shingles vaccine linked with lower risk of many common heart problems
A shingles vaccine seems to provide additional benefitsCavan Images / Alamy Vaccination against herpes zoster, better known as shingles, not…
Disastrous back-to-back heatwaves and droughts surge across Eurasia
Drought conditions can have devastating impacts on Eurasian regions like Karapinar in TurkeyYASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images Over the past…
Deepfake makers can now evade an unusual detection method
Some deepfake videos present a convincing pulseAlamy Stock Photo Deepfake videos that feature digital manipulations of people’s facial expressions and…
US government defunds research on misinformation
Disinformation can be especially prevalent on social media sitesStefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has…
Daily doses of peanuts could desensitise adults with the allergy
Peanuts are one of the most common foods people are allergic tonafterphoto/Shutterstock Adults with peanut allergy reduced their risk of…
New colour seen for the first time by tricking the eyes
Our retinas could be made to see a vivid shade of blue-greenMikeCS images/Alamy Five people have witnessed an intense green-blue…
Will we ever have confirmation of life outside our solar system?
Artist’s impression of the exoplanet K2-18bA. Smith/N. Mandhusudhan One of the strongest signs of life outside Earth was announced this…
Antarctic teams drill oldest ice cores yet in search of climate clues
The camp at Dome C on the East Antarctic plateau where the Beyond EPICA team are drilling ice coresRob Mulvaney…
US military launches initiative to find the best quantum computer
The control room at quantum computer start-up QuantinuumQuantinuum The US military has launched an effort to determine who may be…
Space could emerge from time
Some physicists are questioning the idea of space-timeSAKKMESTERKE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Physicists of the 19th century assumed that space was distinct…