A common and treatable cause of heart attacks is being overlooked
Research suggests inflammation may be just as important as cholesterol as a cause of heart attacks, suggesting different treatments should…
Why adding water when you grind coffee beans makes for a better brew
Coffee aficionados often add a drop of water to their beans before grinding – now scientists have shown that this…
In 2024 the Hera mission will revisit the asteroid punched by NASA
NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the European Space Agency is sending the Hera mission…
Sicily’s hills were 40 metres below water during Earth’s megaflood
The megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5 million years ago was so huge and fast that it shaped the…
Reddit users were subjected to AI-powered experiment without consent
Users of the r/ChangeMyView subreddit have expressed outrage at the revelation that researchers at the University of Zurich were secretly…
Earth is heading for a second year above 1.5°C climate goal
After record temperatures in 2024, climate scientists had expected this year to be cooler, but instead the planet seems to…
‘Great Migration’ involves far fewer wildebeest than we had thought
An estimate that as many as 1.3 million wildebeest move across the Serengeti Mara landscape each year has been cut…
Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run
Not only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world’s energy, in the long term it is the…