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Life

Birds’ nests in Amsterdam are made up of plastic from 30 years ago

Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time capsule into the material's use over the past few decades

Technology

Lasers can help detect radioactive materials from afar

Space

Two huge black holes merged into one and went flying across the cosmos

Mind

Do we all see red as the same colour? We finally have an answer

Environment

Global sea ice levels just hit a new record low

Health

Men taking antibiotics could cut rates of bacterial vaginosis in women

Physics

Quantum disorder is dependent on who is looking for it

Health

Norovirus vaccine pill shows promise against ‘winter vomiting’ bug

Physics

Light has been transformed into a ‘supersolid’ for the first time

A bone that appears to have been fashioned into a tool, dating back 1.5 million years

Humans

Ancient humans used bone tools a million years earlier than we thought

Hominins may have learned how to make bone tools by adapting the techniques they mastered for stone ones

Space

The solar system was once engulfed by a vast wave of gas and dust

Technology

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win Turing award for AI training trick

Life

Chimps and bonobos relieve social tension by rubbing their genitals

Technology

DOGE eliminated the US government’s tech experts – what has been lost?