No clear evidence that meditation or mindfulness makes you happy
Commonly recommended ways to boost our mood – which can also include expressing gratitude or spending time in nature –…
Honey made by ants could treat some bacterial and fungal infections
An ant species in Australia makes honey that killed some bacterial and fungal infections in the lab, raising hopes that…
Astronomers spotted the highest energy light ever seen from a pulsar
Gamma rays with energies upwards of 20 teraelectronvolts have been recorded from the Vela pulsar – 20 times higher than…
Pepper X: The world has a new hottest chilli
Pepper X scorches the previous record holder, the Carolina Reaper, by a million Scoville heat units
Extreme close-up of Jupiter’s moon Io captured by Juno spacecraft
NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew past Io on 30 December and took one of our best pictures yet of this moon…
Can India build a world-leading computer chip industry from scratch?
India currently has a fairly small chip-manufacturing industry, but prime minister Narendra Modi wants the country to become a dominant…
Medieval horses buried in London had far-flung origins
Isotopic analysis of horse teeth from a medieval burial site suggest that the animals were imported to England from Scandinavia…
Frozen human brain tissue can now be revived without damage
Using a new approach, scientists have successfully frozen and thawed brain organoids and cubes of brain tissue from someone with…
Why farming fish is more unsustainable than catching them in the wild
Producing a kilogram of farmed salmon may require 4 or 5 kilograms of wild fish, which isn't a sustainable approach…
Our wounds heal slower than the cuts and scrapes of other primates
Human wounds take almost three times as long to heal as those of other primates, which may come down to…