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Environment

We must adapt to climate change while also tackling the root cause

Technology

Will a new kind of AI that understands physical reality change the world again?

Society

Can we finally use bacteria from crime scenes to solve cases?

Humans

We鈥檙e beginning to understand the sudden 鈥榞rief attacks鈥� that hit mourners

Leaders

Environment

We must adapt to climate change while also tackling the root cause

The devastating wildfires in Europe demand urgent measures to make landscapes more resilient, but without action to reduce use of fossil fuels, the danger is only going to increase

News

Environment

Unprecedented ‘fire clouds’ are fanning the flames in France

Flame-generated thunderstorms known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds can make wildfires even more intense, and they are expected to become more common in Europe

Health

Thousands of people in China have had banned Alzheimer’s surgery

Humans

The genome of a long-extinct ancient human is hiding within us

Humans

Lost civilisation in the Amazon may have numbered 3 million people

Health

Could eating less protein slow ageing?

Space

We鈥檝e found the best example yet of an enormous wandering black hole

Technology

Quantum computers are starting to become useful as scientific tools

Humans

Smallpox DNA in ancient Inca mummies shows virus came from Europe

Health

First-of-kind Guillain-Barr茅 drug switches off part of immune system

Health

Eye implant that restores vision lost to age approved for use

Life

Extraordinary ichthyosaur fossil shows its last meal was a pterosaur

Environment

District cooling could be the solution we need to tackle extreme heat

Health

Pill that lowers oxygen levels in brain may ease Parkinson’s symptoms

Life

Jaguar makes epic 2100-kilometre journey across the Amazon

Humans

Flat head syndrome discovered in Iron Age skeletons

Earth

Asteroid strike caused global firestorm that incinerated the dinosaurs

Analysis

Environment

How Europe can make its landscapes more fire-resilient

Paradoxically, suppressing wildfires has also made European countries more vulnerable to huge blazes like those seen in France and Spain this week. With global warming also amplifying the danger, some experts are calling for a change of strategy

Aperture

Environment

Prize-winning image highlights precarious position of mangrove forests

Gaurav Patil's startling shot, which took the top prize in the 2026 Mangrove Photography Awards, shows a fishing net tangled in a mangrove tree

Regulars

Features

Technology

Will a new kind of AI that understands physical reality change the world again?

AI chatbots can describe reality in words, but don鈥檛 truly understand cause and effect in the real world. Now, a fresh kind of machine intelligence that does just that is emerging

Society

Can we finally use bacteria from crime scenes to solve cases?

Humans

We鈥檙e beginning to understand the sudden 鈥榞rief attacks鈥� that hit mourners

Culture

Comment

What is life? A provocative new book sets out to redefine it

Melanie Challenger's Alive aims to describe the living world very differently 鈥� by insisting on agency and purpose everywhere. Michael Marshall explores

Comment

Getting up close with the fiercest ocean predators that ever lived

Comment

Dive into an in-depth history of the realities of space exploration

Comment

Tom Hiddleston’s new Pompeii show is unabashedly cheesy 鈥� but it works

Mind

How ultra-processed foods may damage your long-term brain health

An increasing number of studies have linked ultra-processed foods with depression, anxiety and even dementia. Columnist Helen Thomson explores how strong the evidence is for the brain effects of a diet full of these foods

Space

Why the most central law in cosmology may need to be broken