Science
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NATO tests satellite internet as backup to sabotaged undersea cables
A satellite orbits the planet Shutterstock / Andrei Armiagov Over the past couple years, undersea cables from the Baltic Sea…
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Could spider silk be the answer to sustainable fashion?
Spider silk is the toughest known fibre, stronger, weight for weight, than high-tensile steel and Kevlar Ruskin Photos/Alamy One of…
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Fancy publishing ‘nonsense’ and sabotaging your fellow scientists?
Play your cards right Readers in the northern hemisphere are facing many more weeks of long, dark nights and cold…
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Fossil claimed to be new species of mosasaur is suspected forgery
Artist’s impression of Carinodens, a mosasaur whose remains scientists suspect might have been manipulated and then labelled as a new…
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What's next in the fight against malaria?
This month marks a year since the malaria vaccine rollout began. Here’s what we still need in order to beat…
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What can we learn from a debunked theory of depression?
We urgently need new ways to understand and treat depression FotografiaBasica/Getty Images Chemically ImbalancedJoanna Moncrieff (Flint Books) Joanna Moncrieff was a…
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Humanoid robot learns to waltz by mirroring people’s movements
A humanoid robot waltzes with help from an AI trained on human motion capture recordings Xuxin Cheng and Mazeyu Ji…
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first launch
New Glenn blasts off Blue Origin Blue Origin’s reusable New Glenn rocket has successfully launched and reached orbit, though engineers…
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The evidence that suggests you don’t need alcohol as a social crutch this Dry January
Will cutting back on alcohol impact our reader’s social life? Ian Dagnall/Alamy Following the excesses of the holidays, many of…
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Ancient society may have carved ‘sun stones’ to end volcanic winter
Stone plaques with sun motifs found on Bornholm island, Denmark Antiquity Publications/John Lee, National Museum of Denmark Hundreds of mysterious…
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