- Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days
- A more detailed understanding of the natural anti-insect protections of tomato plants can lead to better pest-management strategies
- Insulin-producing cells injected into a man with type 1 diabetes have survived for a month so far without the need for immune suppression
- The herbicide glyphosate is helping farmers adopt more environmentally friendly practices, and resistant weeds will make this transition more difficult, experts say
- The microscope cost less than £50 to build using an open-source design and a common 3D printer
- The classic Italian cacio e pepe pasta is notoriously tricky to get right, but physicists have come up with a trick to achieve a perfectly smooth cheese sauce
- Scientists warn efforts to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5°C will fail as data confirms 2024 was the hottest year in human history
- Earthquakes that occurred near an oil extraction site in Surrey, UK, in 2018 and 2019 had been put down to coincidence, but a new analysis with an updated look at the geology of the area suggests the seismic events may indeed have been linked to drilling
- The first known death from a bird flu virus in the US has sparked fears about another pandemic, yet the overall risk to the general public still remains low
- After months of delay, the cool La Niña climate pattern has emerged in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which increases the risk of drought in parts of the Americas
