Carbon capture is a fig leaf for fossil fuel expansion | Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
Prof Myles Allen and colleagues, in their letter (12 July) on carbon capture and storage (CCS), propose licensing…
The Perseid meteor shower starts this week. Here’s why you should look up now
People keep asking me about the total solar eclipse on August 12. That’s understandable. For anyone in the…
Scientists build a tiny quantum engine that turns heat into work
Car engines turn heat into motion through a repeating cycle of heating, cooling, expansion, and compression. Physicists have…
A gray wolf’s rear teeth can generate more than twice the bite force of a domestic dog’s, and the skull geometry behind it helps the predator process the bones of elk-sized prey
The gray wolf’s bite is powerful, but the familiar 1,200 psi figure needs context before it can be…
AI-designed nucleases build on nature’s design
Artificial intelligence is already great at predicting how proteins fold. And soon, AI might become great at…
‘Send help rather than complain,’ Canada’s Ford tells US as wildfire smoke blankets parts of North America (106)
An unpleasant day in Washingtonpublished at 18:35 BST 18:35 BST Bernd Debusmann JrWhite House reporter I’ve just come…
NASA’s Psyche Mission Delivers Mars Flyby Data, Time-lapse Video
This time-lapse video shows the approach, close approach, and departure of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft at Mars as it…
Elephants can send messages through the ground vibrations
Elephants can hear something humans can’t: conversations traveling through the ground beneath their feet. Along with trumpets and…
The World’s Highest-Living Mammal Is Rewriting the Limits of Life
The Andean leaf-eared mouse has the same kind of muscle tissue as a marathon runner, one of multiple…
Shocking Revelations Out of West Antarctica
Image by Cassie Matias. It’s mid-winter but a large area of West Antarctica that should be frozen solid…
NASA’s Psyche Mission Delivers Mars Flyby Data, Time-lapse Video
Peppered by Mars neutrons The gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer, which will help scientists determine the chemical elements that…
RNA can form large 3D structures, suggesting a new role for the molecule in the origin of life on Earth
Scientists long thought that when RNA kick-started life on Earth 4 billion years ago, it could form only…