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Life

Sea spiders ‘farm’ methane-eating bacteria on their bodies

Sea spiders living near deep-sea methane seeps appear to cultivate and eat bacteria on their exoskeletons

Physics

Could Israel’s bombing trigger a nuclear accident in Iran?

Technology

Your passwords have probably been stolen and sold on the dark web

Space

Dead NASA satellite unexpectedly emits powerful radio pulse

Royal Navy officer and Polar explorer Graham Gore (c1808-1847) in 1845.

How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel

Humans

Our big brains may have evolved because of placental sex hormones

Health

Your brain tracks your sleep debt – and now we may know how

Illustration of T cell therapy targeting multiple myeloma

Health

CAR T-cell therapy could be made in the body of someone with cancer

Environment

Offsetting global fossil fuel stores by planting trees is impossible

Human DNA in its natural state inside cells (left) compared to eight hours after being infected with the cold sore virus (right)

Health

Cold sore virus immediately reshapes our genome to boost its growth

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help itself grow

Health

Rapamycin seems to boost longevity as effectively as eating less

Earth

Could natural hydrogen from underground help the UK get to net zero?

Health

The best non-drug therapies to relieve the pain of knee osteoarthritis

Physics

Morse code messages can be trapped in bubbles within blocks of ice