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James Webb telescope: a scientist explains what its first, amazing images show – and how it will change astronomy
A star forming region in the Milky Way. NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Martin Barstow, University of Leicester…
The common eider sea duck contributes to its own conservation by donating its feathers
A group of female eider ducks with one male. (Simon Laroche), Author provided Jean-François Giroux, Université du Québec…
What is BPA and why is it in so many plastic products?
Most plastic products that are clear and strong are made using bisphenol A, or BPA. Beton Studio/iStock via…
Evolutionary tree of life: modern science is showing how we got so much wrong
Flickr, CC BY Matthew Wills, University of Bath If you look different to your close relatives, you may…
What is a heat dome? An atmospheric scientist explains the weather phenomenon baking large parts of the country
The first day of summer 2022 brought soaring temperatures across a large part of the United States. National…
Is Migaloo … dead? As climate change transforms the ocean, the iconic white humpback has been missing for two years
Vanessa Pirotta, Macquarie University It’s that time of year again, when the humpback highway is about to hit…
We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience
Shakespeare AI. iku4 Alex Connock, University of Oxford and Professor Andrew Stephen, University of Oxford Nay, nay, I…
Listening to asthma and COPD: An AI-powered wearable could monitor respiratory health
Even with optimal treatment, asthma and COPD patients encounter unpredictable flareups of their conditions, which can become life-threatening…
Five of the world’s tiniest robots
The RoboFly. University of Washington Joao Filipe Ferreira, Nottingham Trent University Allow me to take you on a…
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped for
The mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope is fully aligned and producing incredibly sharp images, like this…