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Plumbing service. steel of a heating system in boiler room

Technology

Tentacle robot can bend through pipes and unscrew bolts

A soft, tubular robot can bend, twist, expand and contract when exposed to different intensities of light

Health

Heart chambers 3D printed from live human cells can beat for months

Environment

River Thames was pumped full of oxygen in 2022 to prevent fish deaths

DYRYG4 collection of butterfly specimen. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.

Life

Endangered butterflies are being sold for high prices on eBay

Space

Odd gamma ray burst may be from a smash-up between two dead stars

Technology

Clever design makes sticky tape that’s strong but easily removed

The river Teifi at Cenarth falls, Wales

The river Teifi: How agricultural waste is destroying this Welsh river

Technology

Which quantum computer is the most powerful ever? It’s complicated

Health

Knee brace may help torn anterior cruciate ligaments heal themselves

There seem to be some stars missing near the centre of the Milky Way

Space

Centre of our galaxy has a ‘zone of avoidance’ and we don’t know why

The stars that orbit close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole are already tough to explain – but there also seems to be some stars missing

Space

The Milky Way could contain thousands of stars from another galaxy

Life

Monarch butterflies’ big white spots help them fly better

Humans

Finger marks on cave walls are among the earliest Neanderthal art

Physics

The massive problem of trying to fully explain what mass actually is