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Here's one solution for satellite pollution

12 November 2025

Mysterious holes in Andean mountain may be an Inca spreadsheet

10 November 2025

Thousands of holes arranged in a snake-like pattern on Monte Sierpe in Peru could have been a monumental accounting device for trade and tax

How tomorrow’s technologies are changing the battlespace

28 August 2025

The future of warfare is being forged in labs, at tech companies and on battlefields. These changes, and the emerging technologies driving them, are set to profoundly influence military thinking, industrial strategy and society more broadly, say experts

Da Vinci's flying machine has already taken to the air

23 July 2025

Is this the raciest conference invite ever?

9 July 2025

Feedback has been invited to an event next year in Shaoxing, China. It's an academic conference promising "revolutionary thinkers who are redefining human intimacy through cutting-edge robotics and AI"

Orcas scrub each other clean with bits of kelp

23 June 2025

Drone footage has captured killer whales breaking off stalks of kelp and rubbing the pieces on other orcas, a rare case of tool use in marine animals

Is this the first step to cyborg brains? How drones are reshaping warfare forever; New Vera Rubin observatory goes live

13 June 2025

Episode 307 Using new “ultrasoft” electronics, researchers at Harvard have effectively created tadpole cyborgs. A soft bioelectronic device has been implanted into their brains - one which grows with them as they develop into frogs. This neural implant...

Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shallow ditch

29 May 2025

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been erected to control the flow of people, perhaps for tax reasons

Rereading the best science fiction writers of all time: Iain M. Banks

15 January 2025

At his best, Iain M. Banks could be extraordinarily stylish, inventive and downright funny. So how does his genre-redefining science fiction stand up to the test of time? Emily H. Wilson rereads the greats

A New Year’s resolution nightmare and strange lights in the night sky

1 January 2025

The truth is out there – about all those broken promises to better yourself and the odd case of the US politician and the UFOs that never were