Imagine preparing your morning tea without worrying about your next liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder refill. Instead of connecting a gas cylinder, you fill a small tank with water, switch on the stove and produce the fuel you need to cook. It sounds futuristic, but an Indian clean-energy startup is …
What if sunlight could help turn ordinary water into a cleaner fuel, using a material that does not need an additional expensive metal catalyst? Scientists have developed a new light-powered material that could offer a different route to producing hydrogen, one of the fuels attracting attention in the transition to …
The Moon may look like a silent, lifeless world today, but its soil contains clues to a far more dynamic past. Hidden inside tiny glass particles brought back from the lunar surface, scientists have discovered an unusual form of metallic iron that could help reconstruct the history of the Moon’s …
Imagine watching a thunderstorm at night when, for a fraction of a second, an enormous red shape flashes above the clouds. It resembles a glowing jellyfish or a tree made of crimson light. This is not science fiction. It is a red sprite, one of the most spectacular and elusive …
When astronauts look at the Moon from space, they notice things that a photograph alone might miss. Subtle colour differences, shadows inside craters and brief flashes of light can all offer clues about the Moon’s surface and its history. Now, NASA has released more than 800 gigabytes of scientific data …
A chimpanzee mother may continue carrying her infant long after it has died. She may groom its body, hold it close and travel with it as she would when it was alive. In some documented cases, this behaviour has continued for months. Why would a mother continue caring for an …
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid struck the region now known as Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, triggering one of the most devastating mass extinctions in Earth’s history. Non-avian dinosaurs disappeared, along with numerous marine reptiles and other organisms. Yet crocodiles, turtles, mammals, birds and several other animal groups survived. Why did …
Concrete is one of the most widely used materials on Earth, but it has one major weakness: it cracks. Tiny cracks can allow water, salts, and other chemicals to penetrate deep into the material, eventually corroding the steel reinforcement and weakening structures. Repairing this damage is expensive, difficult, and often …
Memories are not just files stored away in the brain. New experiences constantly arrive, and the brain has to decide what to do with them: should this information become part of an existing memory, or should it be stored as something new? Researchers in Spain may have found part of …
In 1998, researchers tried something that sounded more like waste disposal than forest restoration. About 12,000 tonnes of processed orange peels and pulp were spread across a three-hectare patch of severely degraded cattle pasture in northwestern Costa Rica. Sixteen years later, the area looked dramatically different. The pasture had been …
For centuries, physicists have searched for equations that explain how nature works. Newton described motion with a few mathematical laws, Einstein transformed our understanding of gravity, and quantum mechanics introduced an entirely new framework for describing matter and energy. But what if the next important physical law is discovered not …
During an infection, neutrophils are among the body’s first responders. They rush toward threats, attack invading microbes and can trigger inflammation. But during early pregnancy, some of these same immune cells appear to take on a very different job: helping the placenta establish itself. A new study has found that …
Inflammation is part of the brain’s defence system. But when that response stays switched on, it can become damaging. This is one reason scientists are increasingly interested in neuroinflammation in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Now, researchers at the University of Birmingham have identified a receptor that appears to help …
Imagine placing an umbrella over a coral reef not to keep it dry, but to protect it from sunlight. It sounds strange, yet scientists are testing exactly this idea as coral reefs face increasingly severe marine heatwaves and bleaching events. When ocean temperatures become unusually high, corals can expel the …
Coconut shells are usually treated as agricultural waste. But after a little chemical transformation, they could become part of something we drive on every day: asphalt. Researchers have found that turning coconut shells into biochar and adding it to asphalt can make the material stiffer, stronger and more resistant to …
Thousands of metres beneath the Atlantic Ocean, where sunlight never reaches and pressure is immense, scientists found something that sounds almost impossible: 57 species that had never been scientifically identified before. The discoveries came from Argentina’s Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon, a vast underwater valley more than 3,500 metres deep. …
Stockholm, October 5, 2026 Scientists won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing optogenetics, a gene-therapy based technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain. The Nobel Assembly cited their “discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.” The three share the 12 million …
For decades, computers have relied on electrons moving through semiconductor circuits to store, transmit and process information. But as artificial intelligence demands increasingly enormous amounts of computation, conventional electronics are facing growing challenges in speed, heat generation and energy consumption. One possible alternative is to use something that already moves …
CRISPR is often described as one of nature’s most precise genetic tools. But scientists have now discovered an ancient RNA-guided system that appears to have been using a very different way of finding DNA long before modern CRISPR systems evolved. Researchers from the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley, led …
Eggshells usually have a short journey: breakfast, bin, done. But their calcium-rich structure could give them a second life inside something much less familiar, which are metal alloys. Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a way to use powdered eggshells to make stronger and harder magnesium alloys, replacing …
The Universe is expanding. But one of cosmology’s biggest unanswered questions is whether that expansion is being driven by a constant form of dark energy, something that changes with time, or perhaps by physics that scientists do not yet fully understand. Now, astronomers are turning to one of the oldest …
How do you make reading DNA fast, cheap, and scalable enough to change medicine? Three scientists found a way, and it has just won one of science’s most prestigious awards. The prize The 2026 Wolf Prize in Chemistry goes to Pascal Mayer, Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman for developing low-cost, …
Pope Leo XIV wants artists and the Church to join forces against machine-made art. Is faith helping steer technology, or just decelerating innovation? The news On Friday, Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine produces by statistical calculation …
Some of the most useful medicines ever discovered began with something surprisingly small: a molecule made by a microorganism. The problem is that nature contains an enormous number of microbes that scientists cannot easily grow in the laboratory. Their DNA can still be recovered from soil, water and other environmental …
When a honeybee returns to the hive with news of food, she shakes her abdomen in a figure-eight pattern called the waggle dance. The angle tells nestmates which way to fly, and the waggle’s duration tells them how far. A 2026 study suggests the dance carries a third message: how …
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