Out-of-control SpaceX rocket smashes into the Moon

Collision hit with the power of three tons of TNT and will leave behind a visible crater on the lunar surface

independent.co.uk

Could mending damaged DNA prolong life?

Inspired by long-lived animals — and human centenarians — researchers are hunting for ways to enhance DNA repair and extend healthspan.

nature.com

Tiny patch of Amazon probably holds 40,000 insect species — many new to science

Megaproject involving hundreds of sites is cataloguing rainforest insects from the ground to the canopy.

nature.com

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

nature.com

Fires in Europe are breaking records: here’s what the future holds

Countries such as Spain and France can expect fire regimes more like those of California as climate change favours hot, dry conditions, scientists suggest.

nature.com

Nolan's Odyssey, not Homer's

Nolan's Odyssey was always going to be a spectacle, but it has little that is Homeric, and nothing at all Hellenic in spirit.

engelsbergideas.com

Underdog ‘spin qubits’ leap forward in race to a useful quantum computer

Four independent research teams report big advances in devices built with the underestimated quantum bits, including lower error rates.

nature.com

Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, ‘charbroiling’ Cretaceous creatures

Planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson studied the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, killing most of the dinosaurs. They discovered the impact swathed the planet in...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

bbc.com

Unravelling the climate behind the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations

The most severe droughts in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean arose when multiple natural climate cycles coincided, according to a new study from Stockholm University published in Science Advances. Th...

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This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’

Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.

nature.com

Sperm whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

New research from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel, has uncovered the mechanism which allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique vertical position, just under the ocean su...

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Chris McDonald to be UK science minister, Labour HQ says - Research Professional News

MP appointed to new business and science department has industrial research background

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What the sudden demise of the UK’s department of science means for the future of research

If we want to be reminded what real damage to a science system looks like, we only need to glance across the Atlantic.

theconversation.com