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Health

You鈥檝e been sold a giant myth when it comes to improving your health

Physics

Solving the 250-year-old puzzle of how static electricity works

Humans

The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn鈥檛 conquer the world

Leaders

Environment

The Australia-Tuvalu climate migration treaty is a drop in the ocean

Australia has offered a lifeline to the people of Tuvalu, whose island is threatened by rising sea levels. But the deal comes with strings attached 鈥� and there will be millions more climate migrants in need of refuge by 2050

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ANKARA, TURKIYE - JUNE 24: Reflections of flamingos are seen on Lake Tuz, which hosts thousands of flamingos every year, in Ankara, Turkiye, on June 24, 2025. This year, the lake has seen a decline in flamingo numbers due to drought, prompting the birds to shift their migration route to other wetlands across Turkiye. (Photo by Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Life

Flamboyance of flamingos reflected on the surface of Turkey’s Lake Tuz

Tens of thousands of flamingos visit this salt lake every spring to breed - however drought is starting to force them elsewhere

Environment

Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for climate migration visa

Health

Cancer cells steal mitochondria from nerve cells to fuel their spread

Technology

X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less painful

Mind

Deep sleep seems to lead to more eureka moments

Mathematics

Mathematicians create a tetrahedron that always lands on the same side

Environment

The bold plan to save a vital ocean current with giant parachutes

Health

Gastric bypass surgery may cut the risk of bowel cancer

Life

Small and speedy dinosaur recognised as a new species

Life

Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ash dieback disease

Health

Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of death in the US

Environment

Extreme winter weather isn鈥檛 down to a wavier jet stream

Humans

Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as we thought

Earth

These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth’s early crust

Life

Orcas scrub each other clean with bits of kelp

Technology

Generation Alpha’s coded language makes online bullying hard to detect

Life

Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact

Health

Women’s pelvises are shrinking 鈥� how is that changing childbirth?

Technology

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘helicopter’ design could make drones quieter

Environment

Earth is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than we thought

Space

Weird line of galaxies may have been created by a cosmic bullet

Life

Ancient people took wallabies to Indonesian islands in canoes

Aperture

This is a supercell photographed near Arnett, Oklahoma on June 17th. At the moment of the picture, a tornado is ongoing in the center of the image buried in rain, and hail bigger than 55mm (2.17???) is falling and being collected by the hail hunting vehicle. The lightning was prolific because the storm was well over 65,000 feet tall during its peak strength. The lightning was so constant that in 1/8th of a second (the exposure time of this picture), I was able to capture 3 strikes. Most of the lightning was positive, which is stronger than the typical lightning strike which are negative. This can be an indicator of an abundance of hail within the storm, as hail can increase the amount of built up electrical charge within the updraft. Positive strikes typically originate from the top of the storm (anvil) and are characterized by one singular channel without much branching (leftmost strike). Typically striking within the inflow of the storm, they also only strike once instead of strobing with multiple strokes/pulses like negatively charged lightning does. Hope this is enough information about the storm! I can always share more if needed.

Earth

Meet the storm chasers on the hunt for extreme hail

These dramatic images show the researchers out to understand the storms that produce the biggest hail

Regulars

Features

Humans

The remarkable tale of how humans nearly didn鈥檛 conquer the world

Over tens of thousands of years, waves of Homo sapiens set out across Europe and Asia, only for their societies and cultures to mysteriously vanish. At last, ancient DNA is revealing why

Physics

Solving the 250-year-old puzzle of how static electricity works

Health

You鈥檝e been sold a giant myth when it comes to improving your health

Culture

MP46X7 Man sitting on the window seal of an open window reading; man's legs dangling out of window

Comment

The best popular science books of 2025 so far

The downsides of diagnosis and an epic trek following a Slovenian wolf are among our culture editor's top popular science books of the year to date, featuring a range of authors from Robert MacFarlane to Suzanne O'Sullivan

Culture

Comment

The best science fiction books of 2025 so far

Culture

Technology

The dangers of so-called AI experts believing their own hype

Beware the tech leaders making grandiose statements about artificial intelligence. They have lost sight of reality, says Philip Ball

Health

Could hormone implants allow us to boost focus, endurance and libido?