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Pacific comp*** jellyfish (Chrysaora fuscescens) Heidi & Hans-Jürgen Koch These eerily beautiful images show animals born at Europe’s largest jelly-fish breeding facility: Jellyfish Farm, in Künzell, Germany – hundreds of kilometres from any ocean. Photographers Heidi and Hans-Jürgen Koch used macro lenses and studio flashes to capture the images, but they were most concerned with Continue Reading
Are these holidayers experiencing “seasonal body image dissatisfaction”? Shutterstock/puyalroyo It feels like we have barely left winter in the northern hemisphere, yet here we are nearing midsummer day. The sight of the sun blazing in the sky can mean only one thing: a slew of lifestyle articles and social media posts advising us how to Continue Reading
A tadpole, stained with immunofluorescence to visualise its internal anatomy, that had a brain-tracking device implanted in it as an embryo Hao Sheng et al. 2025, Jia Liu Lab/Harvard SEAS How does our brain, which is capable of generating complex thoughts, actions and even self-reflection, grow out of essentially nothing? An experiment in tadpoles, in Continue Reading
A man with paralysis being connected to the brain-computer interface system Lisa E Howard/Maitreyee Wairagkar et al. 2025 A man who lost the ability to speak can now hold real-time conversations and even sing through a brain-controlled synthetic voice. The brain-computer interface reads the man’s neural activity via electrodes implanted in his brain and then Continue Reading
Tucked away on a side street in a bustling area of central London lies the headquarters of the largest climate organisation you have never heard of. Every year, the Quadrature Climate Foundation (QCF) funnels hundreds of millions of dollars to some of the world’s most influential campaign groups and scientific institutions, steering the direction of Continue Reading
The south pole of the sun has never been seen before ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team, J. Hirzberger (MPS) We have seen the sun’s south pole for the first time, courtesy of the pioneering Solar Orbiter spacecraft. These images and other measurements should help us refine forecasts of the sun’s activity. Taking a picture of Continue Reading
Autonomous AI agents could soon be communicating across the internet Outflow Designs/iStockphoto/Getty Images What does the future of the internet look like? If AI firms get their way, the once-open web could be fractured into digital silos dominated by commercial AI models, leaving hobbyists and small businesses behind. To prevent this, a team of gr***roots Continue Reading
A blazar may have blasted dark matter at Earth M. Weiss/CfA/NASA An extremely high-energy particle that was spotted tearing through Earth has left scientists flummoxed ever since it was discovered. While many researchers believe the particle was an unusual neutrino, some are now suggesting it may be something even wilder: a particle of dark matter Continue Reading
Deserts like Death Valley could be a surprising source of drinking water Mimi Ditchie Photography/Getty Images A small panel managed to extract a glblockful of clean water from the bone-dry air of Death Valley in California, which suggests that the device could provide the vital resource to arid regions. The atmosphere over extremely dry land Continue Reading
In April, book authors and publishers protested Meta’s use of copyrighted books to train AI Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News Billions of dollars are at stake as courts in the US and UK decide whether tech companies can legally train their artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books. Authors and publishers have filed multiple lawsuits over this Continue Reading
