Artist’s impression of sparks from flint and pyriteCraig Williams, The Trustees of the British Museum Around 400,000 years ago, a…
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Scientists tested the approach on Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, which are endemic to Tanzania, where they transmit malariaJames Gathany/CDC via AP/Alamy…
“I have never needed much of an excuse to throw myself into a cold lake…”Kajsa Swanson/Alamy I have come to…
These beautiful, enigmatic images were captured by scientist and photographer Felice Frankel in her everyday life. Before you read further,…
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more The year in daft Being…
There is a long history of doing physics by imagination. Albert Einstein built his special theory of relativity after imagining…
(1) You have been invited to sit at the periodic table. Among those mythological figures, and the elements named after…
A glacier meets the sea in Dickson Fjord, GreenlandJane Rix/Alamy The Arctic will retain about 1.5°C of warming even if…
The Gale crater on MarsZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth…
Colossal’s so-called dire wolfColossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first and only de-extinction company”, generated a lot…