Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

A weather-forecasting AI was used to recommend routes for American Airlines flights between the US and Europe to reduce the formation of contrails, which contribute to global warming ...

When you fold a flexible material such as a pancake or a tortilla, its behaviour depends on a competition between gravity and ...

We are constantly told to watch out for the health risks of eating ultra-processed food, but should you be worried every time you sit down for a meal? Sam Wong takes a look at the evidence ...

Did Velociraptor hunt in packs? Were Spinosaurus aquatic? How did pterosaurs fly? Forget what you’ve seen in Jurassic Park – the truth is far wilder ...

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David Pérez-Suárez is an astrophysicist lent towards the day side of the sky converted into a Research Software Engineer.

The Perseverance rover has found tiny crystals that seem to be rubies or sapphires inside pebbles on Mars, where they have ...

You can stay there in Sunday for another 23.5 hours, making 47 hours passed in Sunday. If you had started at 2130 in the Line Islands that belong to Kiribati, where the time zone is GMT+14, and a few ...

Climb onto the rim and things look even weirder. You see a flat, narrow ridge with a horizon fairly close, as it curves away ...

It is scarily fascinating to read about the US military's journey into AI warfare in this deeply-researched book. But what ...

OVO, from Cirque du Soleil, is named after the Portuguese word for egg. It is a simple tale about a quirky fly that brings an ...