How long would humans live if we cured aging? Not merely slowing it but preventing the gradual breakdown that causes muscles to weaken, organs to deteriorate and diseases such as dementia and heart ...

Image from Hubble showing the bipolar outflow of material ejected by the helium nova V445 Puppis. The progenitor binary star system is just about visible in the centre of the outflow. Also visible are ...

The wildfire season was already running ahead of schedule when three new satellites reached orbit. By the end of June, fires had burned more than a million hectares across the United States, far above ...

Researchers have identified six giant landslides inside three impact craters, where ice and debris fell more than 2 ...

A bathroom at Emperor Hadrian’s villa has kept an engineering secret for nearly 2,000 years. Researchers studying concrete ...

Pollinators – including bees, flies, wasps, moths, butterflies and some nectar-loving birds – are a cornerstone of our natural environment. By helping plants reproduce, they keep our ecosystems ...

Artistic depiction of the three key moments captured by seismometers: the goal, the disallowed goal, and the final whistle. When Ferran Torres scored the goal that won Spain the 2026 World Cup, ...

Artistic illustration of how the Milky Way’s disc may have shifted by more than 90 degrees. The faint outline shows its possible former orientation, while the surrounding stellar halo preserves clues ...

Picture released by the Greek Culture Ministry depicting 13 verses from the Odyssey. Nearly 1,800 years ago, someone in the Olympia region picked up a stylus and began scratching poetry into a ...

“You’d see massive glacier calvings, and you’d just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you’d be like … ‘can you not put two and two together?’” Those are the words of a former ...

The fish traps at Lake Tesse, with sections of the Stone Age settlement area visible in the background. Credit: Antiquity. The trout of Lake Tesse should not be there. When the last ice sheet withdrew ...