Why it would be utter madness to stop funding mRNA vaccine technology
Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine uses mRNA technologyImago/Alamy This week, researchers in the US…
Prototaxites: Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life
Prototaxites formed tall structures like tree trunks, shown in this illustration of…
NASA has made the first radio telescope observations on the moon
The Odysseus spacecraft as it approached the moonIntuitive Machines The first successful…
Monkeys choose babysitters based on who has more parenting experience
A black-and-white snub-nosed monkey and her infantMinden Pictures/Alamy Snub-nosed monkey mums are…
Dark energy is not what we thought – and that may transform the cosmos
Star trails over the Mayall Telescope in Arizona, which houses the Dark…
The world’s climate is in uncharted territory, warns major report
Meltwater runs off the Bråsvellbreen Glacier in the Norwegian archipelago of SvalbardSebnem…
Most quakes on Mars happen during the summer – and we don’t know why
A fracture on Mars’s surface, taken in January 2018 by the European…
The surprising new idea behind what sparked life on Earth
Sparks between water droplets may have started life as we know itShutterstock/Perry…
We may have discovered how dark oxygen is being made in the deep sea
Manganese nodules on the sea floor seem to be a source of…
Hilbert’s sixth problem: Mathematicians solve 125-year-old quest to unite key laws of physics
Understanding fluids requires mathematical tools that operate at different scalesKARL GAFF /…
