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A new update to an influential economic theory called “Doughnut Economics” shows a global economy on a collision course with nature.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor and his PhD student Didier Queloz, working at the University of Geneva, announced they had detected a planet orbiting…

Just over a year ago, Nasa made a remarkable announcement. The Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient life on Mars. Now, the technical details behind that discovery have been published in a Nature paper that, despite its rather modest wording, may ultimately prove to be among the most…

A new study has determined that 55 heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change

Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation

Surface spots and nodules on rocks in ancient river valley are described in new study as ‘potential biosignatures’

Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say

The answer is not what I expected

Imagine a mum who can have children from two different species. Family gatherings would be interesting, to say the least. In the insect world, this is no joke. A new study published in Nature shows that queens of the Iberian harvester ant (Messor ibericus) routinely lay eggs of not just…