Science

Trees floating towards the Arctic OceanCarl Christoph Stadie/The Alfred Wegener Institute Cutting down swathes of boreal forest and...

Melaleuca wetland forests in New South Wales, Australia, are hotspots for tree microbial lifeLuke Jeffrey / Southern Cross...

The San people of southern Africa hunt with poison arrows, and this practice may have truly ancient originsimageBROKER.com...

Ancient humans taking on an elephant – our ancestors may have begun butchering the animals 1.8 million years...

Researchers working at Prudhoe Dome in GreenlandCaleb K. Walcott-George An ice dome in northern Greenland once melted completely...

The Book Club has been reading Iain M. Banks’s The Player of GamesColin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images The...

Primordial black holes are hypothesised to have formed shortly after the big bangShutterstock/Mohd. Afuza An unusually massive black...

Sahelanthropus fossils (centre) compared with a chimpanzee (left) and a human (right)Wiliams et al., Sci. Adv. 12, eadv0130...

Artist’s impression of the free-floating planet lensing light from a distant sourceJ. Skowron/OGLE Nearly 10,000 light years away,...

Quantum computers are well-matched to solve chemistry problemsMarijan Murat/dpa/Alamy Whether quantum computers can actually solve practical problems is...