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A key feature contributed to sauropods getting so enormous, new dino foot study reveals
Herschel Hoffmeyer/Shutterstock Steven W. Salisbury, The University of Queensland; Andréas Jannel, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, and Olga Panagiotopoulou,…
How complex is your life? Computer scientists found a way to measure it
Unsplash/Susan Q Yin Karlo Doroc, The University of Melbourne Nobel laureate economist Richard Thaler famously quipped: People aren’t…
What is a flash flood? A civil engineer explains
A bridge and road submerged by floodwaters from the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Jackson, Kentucky,…
New research reveals that wildfires can influence El Niño
Apostolos Voulgarakis, Technical University of Crete and Matthew Kasoar, Imperial College London Wildfire is a phenomenon that has…
What is this new Langya virus? Do we need to be worried?
People could have caught the virus from wild shrews. Shutterstock Allen Cheng, Monash University A new virus, Langya…
How likely would Britain’s 40°C heatwave have been without climate change?
A member of the Coldstream Guards succumbs to the heat, June 2022. Lois GoBe/Shutterstock Ben Clarke, University of…
Mixed messages: Is coffee good or bad for us? It might help, but it doesn’t enhance health
The chemical properties of coffee are what produce its waking-up effects. (Shutterstock) Thomas Merritt, Laurentian University Coffee is…
Monarch butterflies join the Red List of endangered species, thanks to habitat loss, climate change and pesticides
Monarch butterflies cluster on a eucalyptus tree at Pismo State Beach’s Monarch Butterfly Grove in California. Ruby Wallau/Getty…
This Australian experiment is on the hunt for an elusive particle that could help unlock the mystery of dark matter
Shutterstock Ben McAllister, The University of Western Australia Australian scientists are making strides towards solving one of the…
Irony machine: why are AI researchers teaching computers to recognise irony?
shutterstock thinking robot. Charles Barbour, Western Sydney University What was your first reaction when you heard about Blake…