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There are only a few anti-ageing supplements that actually work

When it comes to supplements to stave off the effects of ageing, columnist Graham Lawton admits he is a hardened sceptic.

Musk’s SpaceX Delays Starship’s 13th Flight to Friday as Company Stock Trades at Just $118

Elon Musk-owned SpaceX pushed back the 13th test flight of its Starship rocket to Friday, July 24, after weather…

For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings

MIT researchers found that electric vehicles produce 40-60% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than comparable gas-powered…

The Device in Your Junk Drawer Contains Real Gold. Scientists Just Found a Way to Get It Out With Cheese Waste

ETH Zurich researchers led by professor Raffaele Mezzenga developed a whey-protein amyloid aerogel that pulls gold ions…

A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Andrew Critch and Jacob Tsimerman have published a taxonomy categorizing potential omnicidal…

Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.

FDA reports new outbreak of explosive diarrhea with 72 cases identified

The FDA hasn't said where the cases are or how they're linked.

A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

University of Chicago researchers have developed a cleaner method to separate rare earth elements using layered…

This El Niño will be the hottest by a huge margin

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150…

A woman got a UTI. Two years later, the bacteria had evolved, invaded her brain.

The case provides a novel report of the emergence of heterovirulence.

Can sounds make plants grow bigger? A start-up says they can

Haivya has developed acoustic signals designed to influence plant development, and its trials reportedly show large…

Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain

Research shows that handwriting engages more of the brain than typing, recruiting cognitive resources for motor control…

Fields Medals 2026

The 2026 Fields Medals were awarded to four mathematicians: Yu Deng for advances in partial differential equations and…

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon

Fields medal 2026: Work on unifying laws of physics wins maths prize

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's…

Dark energy doesn’t exist, claims controversial paper

An analysis of supernovae argues that the universe’s expansion is not speeding up, so there is no need for dark energy…

Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode

“We think this may help younger orcas feed more easily, or it could also just be for fun.”

Orcas filmed making sunfish explode by ramming them at high speed

Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps…

Honey Bee Colony Monitoring via Audio IoT Sensors, Tensorgrams and RNNs

Researchers developed an improved method for remotely monitoring honey bee colony health using audio sensors and…

More than a gut feeling

Long overlooked, the connection between our gut microbes and brain is yielding new insights into mental health

Even camels can't cope: Africa's ships of the desert hit by rising temperatures

Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.

Fretboard Memorisation with Modular Arithmetic

The article proposes using modular arithmetic to memorize guitar fretboard positions more efficiently than traditional…

Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico

Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years

Scientists have concluded that Grand Duke Francesco I de' Medici and his wife Bianca Cappello died of malaria in 1587,…

Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

I don't have access to the actual content of this conversation between Terrence Tao and ChatGPT about the Jacobian…

Is it true that fresh air heats up faster than stale air? If so, why?

Readers weigh in on this one, debating everything from the meaning of “stale air” to its heat capacity

How do fish recognise others of their own species? Part 2

Another expert reader explores this thorny topic, including reference to the behaviour of their own archerfish

Are flies following a strategy when they keep hitting a window? Part 2

Readers take issue with a former answer to this question, arguing for the different behaviour of wasps and flies – and…

This week’s new questions

What is the optimal way to ice a cocktail: fewer big cubes or lots of small ones?