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High resolution images presents creating planets of the solar system. This image elements furnished by NASA.

Space

This mathematical trick can help you imagine space-time

Visualising space-time can be a mind-melting exercise, but mathematician Manil Suri has a trick that makes it easier

Mind

We now know why we find some jokes funny – thanks to Seinfeld

A fire in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia, on 1 November - a potential example of extreme weather conditions brought about by climate change

Environment

World predicted to break 1.5°C warming limit for first time in 2024

Environment

Ancient climate analysis suggests CO2 causes more warming than thought

Life

Honeyguide birds respond to special calls from human honey-hunters

Environment

Microplastic pollution rained down on Canada during a hurricane

Baseball player

Physics

Seams on a baseball shift its trajectory by unexpectedly large amount

Tulostoma shaihuludii

Life

Sand-dwelling fungi discovered and named after Dune’s giant sandworms

A section of the Kingfisher Feeder Pipeline, part of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)

Environment

Uganda is planning a massive clean energy expansion – paid for by oil

Dead man's fingers coral, off the coast of Denmark in Jammer Bay

Uncharted waters: The scientists saving Denmark’s hidden coral

In 2020, while in Jammer Bay, Denmark, explorer, diver and mapping expert Klaus Thymann discovered a remarkably abundant and undocumented habitat

Life

Unusual dark hedgehog from eastern China is new to science

Environment

Insects thrive on solar farms planted with native flowers

Health

Genetic errors are behind more than two thirds of early miscarriages

Technology

Quantum computer sets record on path towards error-free calculations