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Life

Mice seen giving ‘first aid’ to unconscious companions

Young mice seemingly attempt to revive an anaesthetised cage mate by grooming and biting it and will even pull aside the tongue to clear its airway

Earth

Volcano in Ethiopia is releasing unusually large plumes of methane

Technology

AI trained on novels tracks how racist and sexist biases have evolved

Life

Watch a cuttlefish transform into a leaf and a coral to hunt its prey

Space

Gigantic star has gone through a rapid transformation and may explode

Health

Why being bilingual really does seem to delay dementia

Health

USAID funding freeze devastates reproductive healthcare worldwide

Chris Stringer with replica skulls of human ancestors

Chris Stringer is tracing human ancestors back a million years

Mount Etna, located on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, is known as the most active stratovolcano in the world, with regular, ongoing volcanic activity. As of 8 February 2025, a new eruptive phase of Etna has begun. The volcano spewed out ash clouds and a lava flow extending approximately 3 kilometres. As a result of the volcanic activity, parts of the Catania Airport were closed temporarily, although overall airport operations have remained unaffected. This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 12 February 2025, shows the lava flow descending from the volcano. The Copernicus Sentinel satellites provide essential data on volcanic activity around the globe, providing authorities and researchers with insights into eruptions and their impacts on human activities.

Earth

See Mount Etna’s latest lava flow glow on the snow-covered volcano

Bleeding Edge by Microsoft

Technology

Microsoft wants to use generative AI tool to help make video games

Using AI to produce footage of video games with a consistent world and rules could prove useful to game designers

Environment

The world鈥檚 glaciers have shrunk more than 5 per cent since 2000

Earth

Clever chemistry can make rocks absorb CO2 much more quickly

Technology

Microsoft has a new quantum computer 鈥� but does it actually work?

Jonathan McDowell is the archivist of world spaceflight knowledge