Science
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AI helps robot dogs navigate the real world
Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a…
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Watch elephants use a hose to shower themselves – and prank others
Elephants are masters at using a hose – considered a complex tool because of its flexibility, length and the physics…
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Chimps do better at difficult tasks when they have an audience
A chimpanzee tackling a number test on a touch screen Akiho Muramatsu The pressure of a watching audience can have…
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Why does our universe have something instead of nothing?
The universe is full of matter Mohd. Afuza/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each…
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See nature in close-up in these stunning photographs
A spiny toad amplexus, with a female in the middle of several males. Aloys Pichard Each year, hordes of spiny…
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More and More and More review: Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever?
Coal plants and wind turbines coexist rather than replace each other in Westphalia, Germany mauritius images GmbH / Alamy More…
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We are a long way from pregnancy being safe on Mars
Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren’t exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous…
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Could seaweed be the ultimate carbon capture solution?
An island of floating brown Sargassum seaweed Andrey Nekrasov/Alamy The big question, in the mid-21st century, wasn’t how to transition…
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Conspiracy theorists are turning their attention back to HPV vaccines
We are living in a vaccine-hesitant moment, with conspiracy theories thriving on social media. We need to push back, says…
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The Impossible Man review: What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose, at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria APA-PictureDesk/Alamy The Impossible ManPatchen Barss (Atlantic Books (UK, 14 November);…
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