SCIENCE

The hunt for where the last Neanderthals lived

Neanderthals often found refuge in cavesGREGOIRE CIRADE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about…

5 months ago

Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2

Trees floating towards the Arctic OceanCarl Christoph Stadie/The Alfred Wegener Institute Cutting down swathes of boreal forest and sinking the…

5 months ago

Exercise may relieve depression as effectively as antidepressants

Exercise can form part of an effective treatment for depressionNeil Lang/Shutterstock Many of us experience a mood-boost after exercise, and…

5 months ago

Fossil analysis adds to debate over how earliest known hominin walked

Sahelanthropus fossils (centre) compared with a chimpanzee (left) and a human (right)Wiliams et al., Sci. Adv. 12, eadv0130 A long-running…

5 months ago

Physicists are uncovering when nature’s strongest force falters

The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion ColliderBROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY We are getting closer to understanding when the strong…

8 months ago

Pig liver transplant into a living person edges it closer to the norm

Surgeons carrying out the pig liver transplant at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, China, in May 2024Xianfu…

8 months ago

Your happiness in life may not be U-shaped – here’s how it could vary

Our happiness levels are not constant throughout our livesIppei & Janine Photography/Getty Images The commonly held belief that happiness follows…

8 months ago

Should we worry AI will create deadly bioweapons? Not yet, but one day

AI could be used to make the toxin ricin, but this can also be obtained from castor beans, found in…

8 months ago

We may finally know what causes will-o’-the-wisps

An 1849 engraving depicting a will-o’-the-wispSSPL/Getty Images Bubbles merging in water can spontaneously generate electric sparks powerful enough to ignite…

9 months ago

Lung inflammation may make traumatic events harder to forget

Inflammation of the airways could result from smoking or air pollution exposureLysenko Andrii/Shutterstock Severe airway inflammation impairs the ability of…

9 months ago