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Surprisingly simple method makes a low-cost, tuneable liquid lens

Neanderthal and Homo sapiens interactions 100,000 years ago included cultural exchange

New thermogalvanic tech paves way for more efficient fridges

Human-made materials – the “technosphere” – are a deep store of fossil carbon – and possibly a ticking time bomb

Most of Earth’s meteorites come from a few asteroid break ups

Kenya's "man-eater" lions of the 19th century confirmed using DNA

Exoplanet found around our closest lone star

Researchers have made a cooling device that uses the physics of radiative cooling, and they say can chill environments with 50% of the energy used by conventional air conditioning

A new investigation of a single galaxy roughly 270 million light years away has revealed interactions between the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and the galaxy's radiant disc that help define a boundary, one that suggests our own galaxy could stretch farther than we imagined.

Catastrophic giant underwater avalanche hit 60,000 years ago

Liquid water found on Mars could host life

Hope for coeliacs after study discovers origin of gluten response

Uterus transplant trial ends with bundles of joy

Genetics solves a thorny problem: how plants have prickles

Total artificial heart implanted in human for the first time

The start of complex life on Earth pushed back by 750M years

Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness

Small reactors don't add up as a viable energy source

A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers

Mouse-rat hybrid has neurons of both species in its brain: Researchers in the US are the first to successfully create hybrid brains of 2 different species

New intercalation equation will speed up battery and superconductor research

Water found on supposedly dry asteroids for the first time - This detection is surprising, because our current understanding of solar system formation would suggest that S types are anhydrous because of their formation location in the inner solar system

Sceptics, look away: a mostly renewable electricity grid is highly feasible

Astronomers believe they have witnessed the birth of a black hole

Silk tougher than Kevlar thanks to genetically modified silkworms

Language was born in the hands (2022)

China’s oldest water pipes were built communally

12,000-year-old sequins hint at a shared culture in Indonesian islands

Wind and solar unbeatable for low cost new electricity

Human body odor critical for mosquito host-seeking behavior over long distance

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