With lithium in short supply, sodium-ion batteries might offer cheap energy storage with less environmental impact ...

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic ...

Most people born before 1968 have antibodies against flu viruses similar to the H5N1 strain circulating today, which might ...

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Projects to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by making the oceans less acidic are popping up all over the world – ...

Enigmatic phenomena called fast radio bursts might be caused by interstellar objects colliding with highly magnetised neutron ...

Gene editing in the womb could be more effective than the same treatment after birth, as it is easier to deliver the ...

A reluctant deal finalised at the COP29 climate summit isn't generous enough to encourage nations to submit more ambitious ...

Creatine is commonly associated with athletes and bodybuilders, but the popular supplement seems to have broad benefits on ...

A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way ...

Already, such conditions kill around half a million each year. That will inevitably rise as climate change increases the ...

Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for ...