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Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise. By 2100, such feedback loops will increase warming by 20 to ...

An influx of immune cells into the uterus may be what initiates childbirth. These grab on to muscle cells via tiny tubes and ...

AI company Anthropic has created a formalised proof of Fermat’s last theorem. It took just 11 days for a group of AI agents to complete the task, confirming that the human-found proof proposed in the ...

A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisitely ...

If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it absorbs, ...

Famous and challenging problems in mathematics are falling to AI at a rapid pace. Where does this leave mathematicians and ...

The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process ...

Global warming and a record El Niño have pushed Earth’s temperature more than 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, and ...

A group of astronomers proposes that a series of events in a distant galaxy formed both a black hole and a pulsar, but other ...

Over the past 20 years, scientists have acquired a much fuller understanding of the biological pathways of ageing and are ...

AI companies are making new mathematical discoveries at a rapid pace but not sticking around to help unpick the new proofs.