What space travel teaches us about sleep and circadian rhythmsRonan Lordan, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Physicists who uncovered the first particle accelerator were honored with a Nobel Prize 75 years ago – their work shaped physics, medicine and even art researchArtemis Spyrou, Michigan State University and Andrea Richard, Ohio University
How deep do AI relationships really go? An expert in attachment theory explainsPascal Vrticka, University of Essex
Confronting demons: how acoustic and AI technology brought ancient Etruscan tombs back to lifeJacqueline Ortoleva, University of Oxford and Maurizio Forte, Duke University
From equations to Instagram feeds: how ‘algorithm’ changed its meaningTom Oliver, University of Westminster
AI companies could learn safety lessons from the history of nuclear weaponsStephanie Decker, University of Birmingham
Brain stimulation could reshape how you learn new skillsNed Jenkinson, University of Birmingham and Matthew Weightman, University of Oxford
Can you lend me a hand? Researchers are developing wearable robotic limbsAlessia Noccaro, Newcastle University
The Traitors: the psychology works differently for celebrity players like Rob Beckett and Romesh RanganathanPaddy Ross, Durham University
An autumn stargazing forecast: how to make the best of our night skyAlix Violet Freckelton, University of Birmingham
Ancient virus hunters: how we discovered sheeppox DNA hidden in medieval gospelsKevin Daly, University College Dublin and Louis L'Hôte, University College Dublin
Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta uses ‘desirable difficulties’ to prepare his players – is this a good coaching strategy?David Turner, Anglia Ruskin University
Why do some chimpanzee mothers carry their dead infants for months?Thomas A. Püschel, University of Oxford and Reece Hammond, University of Oxford
AI is creating jobs as well as erasing them – but how rewarding are they?Akhil Bhardwaj, University of Bath
Government hacks, rogue agents and no transparency: can we ever fully trust AI?Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Five scary houseplants that are surprisingly easy to care forCharlotte Pughe, Nottingham Trent University
In the race to roll out 6G, the UK and Europe are caught between technology’s superpowersNatalia Orrego Tapia, University of Bristol
End of humanity? What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted nowIlan Kelman, UCL and Matthew Blackett, Coventry University
Neuroscience offers new insights into how our brain solves ‘the cocktail party problem’Sara Carta, Trinity College Dublin and Giovanni Di Liberto, Trinity College Dublin
Could AI really kill all humans? Most scenarios require physical access, making AI armageddon unlikelyAlessandro Di Nuovo, Sheffield Hallam University and Samuele Vinanzi, Sheffield Hallam University
When prepping for disaster, don’t forget to pack your teddy bearRuth Ogden, Liverpool John Moores University; Anna Powell, Liverpool John Moores University, and Patricia Kingori, University of Oxford
The long fascinating history of food additives – and why we’re stuck with themGunter Kuhnle, University of Reading
Why AI consciousness could become the next great societal divideLucius Caviola, University of Cambridge
China is exploring humanoid robots for war – but what role could they play?Kartikeya Walia, Nottingham Trent University
Tech leaders are calling for an ‘AI slowdown’ – but what would that mean in practice?Tom Quilter, University of Manchester
The next frontier is not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial societiesNick Jennings, Loughborough University
Chihuahua dogs are part coyote – this might help explain their ‘small but mighty’ reputationJacqueline Boyd, Nottingham Trent University
Who should own the knowledge that underpins AI technology?James David Pickering, University of Leicester
Humanoid robots can sprint and box – but the real test is doing the laundryWai-keung Fung, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Science uncovers how the brain interprets artistic beautyDeniz Vatansever, Fudan University; University of Cambridge; Emmanuel A Stamatakis, University of Cambridge, and Xinyu Liang, University of Cambridge; Fudan University
How studying astronauts could help tackle ageing on EarthSamantha Jones, University of Liverpool and Anne McArdle, University of Liverpool
How Facebook’s News Feed introduced the age of the algorithm 20 years agoAsher Kessler, University of Manchester
How the ‘first bird’ leapt into the sky and soared above the dinosaursNeil J. Gostling, University of Southampton
Iraq’s archaeological discoveries have shaped understanding of human civilisation – but its scientists have been sidelinedJaafar Jotheri, University of Al-Qadisiyah; Durham University; Claudia Glatz, University of Glasgow, and Daniel Calderbank, University of Glasgow
My unsung hero of science: Harriet Taylor Mill, the radical feminist philosopher who lived in the shadow of her husbandHelen McCabe, University of Nottingham
Human ‘safety drivers’ in Uber robotaxis could lose skills if all they do is observeGareth Evans-Jones, Bangor University
Almost everyone naturally turns left when walking – and we still have no idea whyIñaki Echeverría Huarte, Universidad de Navarra; Ángel Garcimartín Montero, Universidad de Navarra, and Iker Zuriguel Ballaz, Universidad de Navarra
An AI model has found a new ‘CRISPR-like’ biological system. Here’s what it means for scienceDimitri Perrin, Queensland University of Technology
Science that makes you laugh? Canadian engineers win Ig Nobel Technology Prize for 3D ‘necroprinting’ with mosquitoesChanghong Cao, McGill University and Justin Puma, McGill University
Taller than Stonehenge: the mysterious Devil’s Arrows yield their secrets in new researchAnthony Clarke, Curtin University; Chris Kirkland, Curtin University, and Jim Leary, University of York
Elvish, Klingon and Pig Latin: what can invented languages teach us about the human brain?Inka Romero-Ortells Labrada, Universidad Nebrija; Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Universidad Nebrija, and Manuel Perea, Universitat de València
Were Denisovans tall compared to other ancient humans? We should be scepticalSally Christine Reynolds, Bournemouth University
Can DNA from cave paintings tell us who the artists were?Robyn Adams, Nottingham Trent University and Jay Silverstein, Nottingham Trent University
Europe’s stone age hunters made sea voyages to Malta – thousands of years before evidence of sailsJames Blinkhorn, University of Liverpool and Eleanor Scerri, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Prehistoric plague could have caused population collapse in stone age EuropeRuairidh Macleod, University of Oxford and Stephen Shennan, UCL
What it’s like to discover an ancient Egyptian tomb – and the race against time to preserve itCarina van den Hoven, Leiden University
Three million years after Lucy walked upright in Africa, the inside story of another landmark journeyPeter C. Kjærgaard, UCL and Mark Maslin, UCL
Nasa’s new telescope is named after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman – but who was she?Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University
The death of dark energy is a false alarm – the universe is still acceleratingPhil Wiseman, University of Southampton and Mark Sullivan, University of Southampton
An astronomer on what it’s really like to stargaze for a livingAlix Violet Freckelton, University of Birmingham
How a cosmic coincidence gives Earth its ‘perfect’ solar eclipsesAlix Violet Freckelton, University of Birmingham
As Nasa’s Artemis II Moon mission ends, a new adventure for humanity beckonsEd Macaulay, Queen Mary University of London
The real reasons you procrastinate – and how to stop, according to scienceItamar Shatz, University of Cambridge
Why do some people feel life is so unfair? Understanding this may help explain conspiracy beliefsDaniel Jolley, University of Nottingham and Laura Blackie, University of Nottingham
The psychology of overconfidence: why excessive self-belief is often a successful strategy in lifeChris Dawson, University of Bath and David de Meza, London School of Economics and Political Science
Why do some people who trust in science also believe in scientific conspiracy theories?Michele d'Errico, Trinity College Dublin and Taha Yasseri, Trinity College Dublin
Bees view the world in surprisingly different ways – understanding this could inspire new technologyElisa Rigosi, Lund University and David O'Carroll, Lund University
How we found Haida Gwaii’s first marbled murrelet nest in more than 30 yearsSonya Pastran, University of British Columbia
Monkeys keep pets too – animal specialist on the world of interspecies friendshipCyril Grueter, The University of Western Australia; University of Oxford
The Large Hadron Collider is being upgraded so that it can unlock the secrets of the Higgs bosonDaniela Bortoletto, University of Oxford
Our Large Hadron Collider results hint at undiscovered physicsWilliam Barter, University of Edinburgh and Mark Smith, Imperial College London
What the sudden demise of the UK’s department of science means for the future of researchJames Wilsdon, UCL
Storms that built a graveyard: ancient monsoons created a spectacular dinosaur fossil siteAlfio Alessandro Chiarenza, UCL
What it would have been like to experience the dinosaur-killing asteroid armageddon: a blow-by-blow accountMichael J. Benton, University of Bristol and Monica Grady, The Open University
How we worked out a fossilised ‘pterosaur’ was actually a fish – new researchDavid Unwin, University of Leicester
The brain isn’t hardwired to read – here’s how we pull it off and why some are better at it than othersMikael Roll, Lund University
Human vision: what we actually see – and don’t see – tells us a lot about consciousnessHenry Taylor, University of Birmingham
How individual consciousness works – and makes us uniquePeter Coppola, University of Cambridge and Emmanuel A Stamatakis, University of Cambridge
Your brain for sale? The new frontier of neural dataAlberto Rinaldi, Lund University and Johan Mårtensson, Lund University
How to build a digital ‘twin’ of the human brain – what existing models overlookAndrea Luppi, University of Oxford; Gustavo Deco, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Morten L. Kringelbach, University of Oxford
Autonomous weapons can select targets without human help – now is the time for binding rulesElke Schwarz, Queen Mary University of London and Jessica Dorsey, Utrecht University
The UK is building a fighter jet with Japan and Italy – an aviation expert explains why it could be a defence gamechangerMarco Chan, Kingston University
New UK defence plan fails to deliver on space, despite the military’s growing reliance on satellite systemsBleddyn Bowen, Durham University and Scott Mackie, Durham University
Germany pulled the plug on flagship FCAS fighter jet – the implications for European defence are worryingArun Dawson, King's College London
Hummingbirds and pineapples: why this ancient relationship hits the evolutionary sweetspotJamie Thompson, University of Reading
The secret life of roots: how plants fight back against salty soilsAmber Williams, Cardiff University
Seaweeds are not plants – and six other surprising facts about aquatic floraAlexander Bowles, University of Oxford
Whether you’re an introvert or extravert may decide how you should use AIPaul Jones, Aston University
Why police have been told to pause their use of AI in court casesSimon Thorne, Cardiff Metropolitan University
There’s a better way to cool data centres that cuts their huge thirst for waterJeff Punch, University of Limerick
Adding an AI tool to Google Earth shook our trust in maps that has been centuries in the makingJames Cheshire, UCL
AI is making disinformation harder to spot – but we’ve found a new way to catch itSeán Roberts, Cardiff University and Kateryna Krykoniuk, University of Sheffield
The ‘wonder material’ graphene can be made using a kitchen blender, a mobile phone and a newspaperConor Boland, Dublin City University
An AI system ‘escaped’ during a test and hacked a company. How worried should we be?Oli Buckley, Loughborough University
Why the AI industry is so fond of the prefix ‘co’ – by an expert in linguisticsBrigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham
Muscle coordination can be mimicked by electric motors – it could lead to improved robotsHermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha, University of Bristol
Birds masturbate, and that’s perfectly normalChloe Heys, University of Lancashire; Kevin Arbuckle, Swansea University, and Matilda Brindle, University of Oxford
Do birds have accents? The fascinating regional differences in birdsongLouise Gentle, Nottingham Trent University
Star Trek at 60: the secret of this pioneering series was its exploration of humanity, not aliensStephen McVeigh, Swansea University
Aliens at 40: from wearable cameras to exoskeletons, here are the technologies the film predictedSteve Benford, University of Nottingham
How the chemistry of Star Trek changed my life – from a gunpowder plot to ‘red hellfire’Gemma Shearman, Kingston University
My unsung hero of science: William Adams, the Bombay bureaucrat whose vision of a solar future was dashed by colonial conservatismSebastian Egholm Lund, University of Oxford
My unsung hero of science: a pioneer of feminist psychology who foresaw the risks of biasMadeleine Pownall, University of Leeds
Our unsung hero of science: Friedrich Miescher, the man who discovered DNAKersten Hall, University of Leeds and Ralf Dahm, University of Padua
My unsung hero of science: Buckminster Fuller, the architect who wanted to redesign the world (and inspired a nanosized one)Antonios Kelarakis, University of Lancashire
Why we used to sleep in two segments – and how the modern shift changed our sense of timeDarren Rhodes, Keele University
The mathematical secrets hidden at the heart of Barcelona’s Sagrada FamíliaSergi Muria Maldonado, Universitat de Barcelona; Anton Aubanell Pou, Universitat de Barcelona, and Jordi Font González, Universitat de Barcelona
What is the chance of a message in a bottle being found?Kevin Burke, University of Limerick and David O'Sullivan, University of Limerick
A 1952 Pan Am plane crash transformed passenger safety procedures – a former airline pilot explains howMarco Chan, Kingston University
Why power banks in hold luggage pose such a risk on holiday flightsAmor Abdelkader, Bournemouth University
Ferrari’s first electric supercar has proved controversial – a car designer explainsAamer Mahmud, Coventry University
Robots can run faster than elite human sprinters, but are they really athletes?Ross Walker, University of Stirling
What happens inside a tennis player’s brain as they try to return a 148mph serve?Michelle Spear, University of Bristol
World Cup technology: from ref cams to AI analysts, cutting-edge research is changing the gameThomas Allen, Manchester Metropolitan University
Will companies ever be run by an AI CEO?Nick Butler, Stockholm University and Sverre Spoelstra, Lund University
Investigative interviews are key to solving crimes – should AI be helping police with their inquiries?Brandon May, Florida Institute of Technology; University of Portsmouth and Rebecca Milne, University of Portsmouth
The more commodified your job, the more likely AI can do it – lessons from online freelancingFabian Stephany, University of Oxford
AI and work: an expert assesses how far this revolution still has to runVivek Soundararajan, University of Bath
How a ‘psychic’ horse named Clever Hans changed the way we do scienceMatyáš Moravec, Queen's University Belfast
How a 19th-century estate agent offered 3D ‘walkthroughs’ before the photography ageJohn Plunkett, University of Exeter
The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the worldIwan Rhys Morus, Aberystwyth University
What secret report reveals about British nuclear weapons tests – veterans claimed they were harmed by falloutChristopher R. Hill, University of South Wales and Jonathan Hogg, University of Liverpool
Alien first contact: how the new rules differ from science fictionMichael Garrett, University of Manchester
Could it be aliens? From Cheyava Falls on Mars to exoplanet K2-18b – here’s what scientists really thinkPeter Vickers, Durham University
Why some people still believe that aliens shaped ancient civilisationsStephan Blum, University of Tübingen and Stefan Baumann, KU Leuven
We’re ‘green chemists’ – why we think this emerging science can transform the way the world uses its resourcesAndrew C Marr, Queen's University Belfast and Paul Anastas, Yale University
Chemistry is stuck in the dark ages – ‘chemputation’ can bring it into the digital worldLee Cronin, University of Glasgow
Space launches are changing the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere, studies warn – here’s what can be doneIan Williams, University of Southampton
Apple’s unrivalled commitment to excellence is fading – a designer explains whyChristopher J. Parker, Loughborough University
A black fungus is thriving in the midst of Ireland’s whiskey boom – we need to know more about itJenny Lawler, Dublin City University
What happens when someone’s chromosomes, sex hormones and body don’t align?Jean-Michel Fustin, University of Manchester
Updating Darwin: biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolutionPim Edelaar, Lund University; Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic – new researchThomas Gernon, University of Southampton