Science

Geometrical problems involve proving facts about angles or lines in complicated shapes An AI from Google DeepMind can solve some International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) questions...

A tardigrade seen with a fluorescence microscope, with a fluorescent marker highlighting some of its organs Tardigrades are renowned for their ability to withstand extreme...

Bottom trawling involves dragging weighted nets across the seafloor Bottom trawling releases around 340 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, according...

Both men and women have benefited from improvements in healthcare over the past few decades Women have historically outlived men, but changing lifestyles may be...

The robotic dodecahedron (circled) mounted on a submersible Brennan Phillips A robotic dodecahedron can capture fragile deep-sea animals to collect tissues samples and construct three-dimensional scans...

A strange and fiendishly...

Venus spins in the opposite direction to all of the other planets in the solar system NASA/JPL-Caltech Venus rotates in the opposite direction to the other...

Yogurt in space “Can Bulgarian yogurt enhance astronauts’ performance during the Mars missions?” ask Izabela Shopova, Diana Bogueva, Maria Yotova and Svetla Danova in their...

Water escaping via the plughole creates a low-entropy vortex Judith Collins/Alamy Molecular Storms Liam Graham (Springer Link) UNLIKE quantum or particle physics, thermodynamics rarely makes headlines, yet it is crucial...

AN ENORMOUS Jurassic pliosaur skull extracted from a cliff in Dorset, UK, is offering scientists a wealth of new information about these sea reptiles....

Installation Pigs in Space by HC Gilje Tarup Dark Sky Festival Tårup Dark Sky Biennial science and art festival Funen, Denmark IN A village on Denmark’s third-largest island,...

A drug that destroys...