Science

A Japanese flower lures in its pollinators with a morbid perfume — the scent of injured ants.The unusual scent belongs to Vincetoxicum nakaianum, a recently named species of Japanese dogsbane. Botanist Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo discovered...

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Eduardo Baptista ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/GYEONGJU (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump may have teased that he could discuss Nvidia's state-of-the-art artificial intelligence Blackwell chips with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but...

Researchers from the MIT Media Lab have developed an antenna — about the size of a fine...

Justin RowlattEnvironment EditorBBCIt is 1am on 3 June. A near gale force wind is blasting into Scotland. Great weather for the Moray East and West offshore wind farms, you would have thought.The two farms are 13 miles off the...

A new AI model is opening the black box of the leading artificial intelligence tool for predicting how proteins will interact with small molecules, such as drugs.The model, OpenFold3, which launched October 28, is a reconstruction of Google DeepMind’s...

Rachel Hagan and Mark Poynting,Climate ReporterSome research suggests hurricanes are generally moving more slowly than they used to. That means more storms like Melissa can sit, rather than sweep, over the land they hit.And some scientists believe that might...

Pallab GhoshScience CorrespondentBBCListen to Pallab reading this articleHidden away in a lab in north-west London three black metal robotic hands move eerily on an engineering work bench. No claws, or pincers, but four fingers and a thumb opening and...

We’ve known since ancient times that physical activity can prevent and treat a broad range of mental...