Category: Business

Dangerous indoor pollution could be tackled with air purifiers but costs are too high for many, researchers say Toxic pollution from wildfires has infiltrated the homes of more than a billion people a year over the last two decades, according to new research. The climate crisis is driving up the...

‘Beautifully preserved’ Archaeopteryx has tertial feathers that appear to have been key to making it aerodynamic An exquisitely preserved Archaeopteryx fossil has delivered fresh insights into how the earliest birds first took flight 150m years ago. The fossil is the first Archaeopteryx in which scientists have been able to identify...

I was told my husband would never talk again, while physiotherapy was dismissed entirely. My son was failed in similar ways, but for the brilliance of some medical staff who refuse to believe a stroke is the end On the night before the accident, John and I and our son...

The discovery by two local fossil hunters on a river bank in Victoria has ‘potentially far-reaching implications’, scientists say Fossilised claw prints found in Australia suggest amniotes – the ancestors of reptiles, birds and mammals – evolved about 40m years earlier than thought. The footprints, in sandstone dated 354m to...

Groups of large language model artificial intelligence agents can adopt social norms as humans do, report says Artificial intelligence can spontaneously develop human-like social conventions, a study has found. The research, undertaken in collaboration between City St George’s, University of London and the IT University of Copenhagen, suggests that when...

Geoengineering, the controversial set of techniques that aim to deliberately alter the Earth’s climate system, may be inching a step closer to reality with the announcement that UK scientists will be conducting real-world experiments in the coming years. To understand what’s happening, Ian Sample is joined by the Guardian environment...

Dan Seavey, who helped organize the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and whose son and grandson have each won the famous Alaska race multiple times, has died

Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state’s firing squad execution last month

A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to attacking a flight attendant with a broken metal spoon and attempting to open an emergency door on a cross-country flight

A federal judge says President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are shown to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang