Keeping space tidy should become a global UN goal, say researchers
The United Nations has 17 sustainable development goals that all member states have signed up to in an effort to…
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Mathematician wins 2024 Abel prize for making sense of randomness
Michel Talagrand has won the 2024 Abel prize for his work researching probability theory and the extremes of randomness
DeepMind AI solves hard geometry problems from mathematics olympiad
AlphaGeometry scores almost as well as the best students on geometry questions from the International Mathematical Olympiad
Largest known solar storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago
By comparing the rings of 140 trees buried in the bank of a French river, researchers estimate that the largest…
Thylacine’s genome provides clues about why it went extinct
A comparison of the thylacine’s genome to other marsupials has revealed that the creatures lost genetic diversity long before humans…
Australia to ban nicotine-free vapes in push to end recreational use
Under new rules in Australia, e-cigarettes will be more tightly regulated as prescription-only pharmaceutical products and nicotine-free vapes will be
Is it time to aim for 1.7°C as the new limit for global warming?
With the world on the cusp of passing 1.5°C of warming, scientists are turning their attention to defining a new…
Detailed image of supermassive black hole shows its powerful jet
An image of a black hole called M87* shows never-before-seen details of matter falling into its centre and a jet…
Trump administration jeopardises key report on climate change
The Trump administration has dismissed all of the researchers working on the next installment of the National Climate Assessment, a…
Earliest known sabre-toothed predator hunted 270 million years ago
The fossilised remains of an ancient carnivore provide intriguing hints about how early relatives of mammals began regulating their own…