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Architectural landscape of granary in ancient China

How human connections shaped the spread of farming among ancient communities

Javier Rivas, University of Bath and Alfredo Cortell, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Celebrity Traitors: my research shows voting behaviour could help identify faithfuls

Celebrity Traitors: my research shows voting behaviour could help identify faithfuls

Robin Kramer, University of Lincoln

Do cats make good therapy animals? The new trend showing felines may be more complicated than we realise

Grace Carroll, Queen's University Belfast

Girl with red hair cuddling cat
Severance: what the hit show can teach us about cybersecurity and human risk

Oli Buckley, Loughborough University

Image of the two main characters in Severance.
Indicators of alien life may have been found – astrophysicist explains what the new research means

Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University

Illustration of a habitable planet with a red dwarf sun
AI-controlled fighter jets may be closer than we think — and would change the face of warfare

Arun Dawson, King's College London

F-22 Raptor.
Close up of phrenology bust

Why were people so drawn to phrenology?

Fenneke Sysling, Leiden University

New form of dark matter could solve decades-old Milky Way mystery

Shyam Balaji, King's College London

Star formation in the centre of our galaxy.
No kidding: goats prove brainier than sheep and alpacas

Megan Quail, Aberystwyth University

Close up shot of a goat with a bunch of foliage in its mouth on a meadow.
When dogs return to nature – just how domesticated are our pooches really?

Jacqueline Boyd, Nottingham Trent University

Dachshund running across grass
How paranormal beliefs help people cope in uncertain times

Andrew Denovan, Liverpool John Moores University; Ken Drinkwater, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Neil Dagnall, Manchester Metropolitan University

Woman's hands trace the lines on a man's hands

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Space

Illustration of 'Oumuamua.

Mysterious objects from other stars are passing through our solar system. Scientists are planning missions to study them up close

Billy Bryan, RAND Europe; Chris Carter, RAND Europe, and Theodora Ogden, RAND Europe

Nasa and Esa want to bring Martian rocks to Earth. Here’s what will happen to the samples once they get here

John Bridges, University of Leicester

Perseverance selfie with Cheyava Falls
How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars

Samuel McKee, Manchester Metropolitan University

Spacecraft takes off into space. Rocket flies to Mars. Red planet Mars in space.
Dark energy may not be constant – this discovery could undermine our entire model of cosmological history

Bernard J.T. Jones, University of Groningen; Licia Verde, Universitat de Barcelona; Vicent J. Martínez, Universitat de València, and Virginia L Trimble, University of California, Irvine

Dark energy may not be constant – this discovery could undermine our entire model of cosmological history
Modern spacesuits have a compatibility problem. Astronauts’ lives depend on fixing it

Berna Akcali Gur, Queen Mary University of London

Spacesuits

Tech

From brain Bluetooth to ‘full RoboCop’: where chip implants will be heading soon

Amin Al-Habaibeh, Nottingham Trent University

Man's head on a robot's body (Robocop)
We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent – here’s how

Guillaume Thierry, Bangor University

Vector human eye illustration made by halftone patter.
Lab-grown meat: you may find it icky, but it could drive forward medical research

James Hague, The Open University

Unrecognisable researcher working on lab-grown meat sample adding liquid in it using pipette.
Next generation computer chips could process data at the speed of light – new research

Demosthenes Koutsogeorgis, Nottingham Trent University and Matthew Spink, Nottingham Trent University

Microchip

Animals

Can we really resurrect extinct animals, or are we just creating hi-tech lookalikes?

Timothy Hearn, Anglia Ruskin University

Woolly mammoth
‘Return’ of the dire wolf is an impressive feat of genetic engineering, not a reversal of extinction

Timothy Hearn, Anglia Ruskin University

Dire wolf
The bizarre-looking dinosaur challenging what we know about the evolution of fingers

Milly Mead, University of Edinburgh

Large bird like prehistoric animal with claws
Dogs see their world through smell – and scientists are starting to translate it like never before

Jacqueline Boyd, Nottingham Trent University

Dog sniffing grass

Editor's picks

Emerald sea at sunset.

Earth’s oceans once turned green – and they could change again

Cédric M. John, Queen Mary University of London

Would you join the resistance if stuck in an authoritarian regime? Here’s the psychology

Magnus Linden, Lund University and George R. Wilkes, King's College London

Would you join the resistance if stuck in an authoritarian regime? Here’s the psychology
Wave energy’s huge potential could finally be unlocked by the power of sound – new research

Usama Kadri, Cardiff University

Aerial picture of choppy seas
Psychopaths experience pain differently, even when their bodies say otherwise

Sophie Alshukri, Liverpool John Moores University and Minna Lyons, Liverpool John Moores University

Collage effect of unwell woman
How viruses blur the boundaries of life

Heshmat Borhani, University of Nottingham

Virus inside tiny glass capsule, held by lab worker wearing blue gloves

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