Trained as a marine biologist and still reads every study past its press release. Several researchers have described her as the only journalist who asked about the sample size.
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Researchers have separated Europe's Ganoderma lucidum from the East Asian medicinal lingzhi, lineages that diverged at least 16 million years ago. The name has been doing the work of both since 1781.
Portia fimbriata hangs upside down in a small web at night. Researchers recorded leg curls, eye movements and twitching, then tried a loud noise.
The Lycurgus Cup turns from jade green to ruby red when lit from behind. Replicating it took gold and silver nanocrystals, and the original took a furnace with a view of its own.
The London Register of Subsurface CO2 Storage now covers 70 projects in 17 countries. Its 2026 report also restates the past, which is where part of the record came from.
An anonymous note in Nature in 1871 blamed a magnetic storm for delaying a train. The railway line it names had not been built.
A braincase from the Isle of Wight sat in London for more than a century before anyone recognised it. It belongs to the first megaraptoran known from Europe.
A study of more than 7,500 historical forecasts finds that one-year predictions hold up when they start from La Nina and fail when they start from neutral conditions.
Sixty-seven designs were tested and four worked. The best converted 79 per cent of a bulky amine while declining to react with the water around it.
Radiocarbon dating puts the skeleton inside the fourth-century sarcophagus some six centuries after the man named on it. The lid was recut with an Anglo-Saxon cross and later used as a floor slab.
A Tufts study of 30,000 adults finds intake steady at about 13 ounces a day from 2003 to 2018, while calories rose from 43 to 60. Non-dairy creamer has overtaken sugar and milk.
NASA's rover took the off-world distance record on 11 October, its 2,006th Martian day. Its original mission specified less than half as far.
Vilnius University researchers report stable performance from perovskite laser structures. The headline figure is a floor rather than a ceiling.
Five papers in The Astrophysical Journal report the primordial helium abundance three times more precisely than before, from 130 hours of observing 15 pristine galaxies.
A marine heatwave collapsed the snow crab population and let a once-rare hybrid flourish. The hybrids are landed as snow crab but were never written into the harvest limits.
The MMX spacecraft leaves Tanegashima early on Tuesday and reaches Phobos in August 2027. Its capsule is due in the South Australian desert in 2031.
Up to 24 years of measurements at 13 sites in the south-west found uptake rising as rainfall fell. The researchers are clear that this does not make climate change good for forests.
Google Quantum AI has cut errors in a key ingredient forty-fold on real hardware. Attempts that failed a check were discarded and restarted.
Researchers at European XFEL focused hard X-ray flashes of about 300 attoseconds into a spot 180 by 330 nanometres across. The point is to look before the sample has time to respond.
A University of Sydney system sorts almost 800 million Martian locations into realms, assemblages and forms. The top class scores 0.93 out of 1, and nothing can be grown in any of them.
More than 10,000 young faults have been mapped across the lunar surface, evidence that the Moon is still contracting as its interior cools. The pace is not expected to inconvenience anyone.
The imperial woodpecker has not been confirmed in the wild since 1956. The digital model of it is now the most precisely measured specimen in existence.
Sgiath, a six-year-old black Labrador from the Scottish Highlands, has been trained to scent the invasive carpet sea squirt at low tide. Her handler says she is always right.
Dianjunus rex produces the largest fruiting bodies known in its phylum, weighing up to 2.2kg. Researchers date its family to about a million years after the dinosaurs.
A new atlas of the mouse brain maps 172 kinds of fat across 109 slices. Its authors say what transfers to humans is the method, not the map.
A milk tooth under a centimetre long, dug out of lakeshore sediment at Schöningen in 2004, sits 1,800 kilometres north of where the species now lives.
Managing acidity in the thin layer beside each electrode lifted the share of the wanted product from about 16 per cent to about 97 per cent. The beaker's own reading never moved.
MIT astronomers have caught a low-mass star steadily drawing material off a brown dwarf 300 light years away. The rate works out at about one hundred-thousandth of an Earth every year.
Egypt has restored the second-century Tondo of the Two Brothers and will lend more than 110 Fayoum objects to Rome. Officials describe it as the collection's first journey abroad.
DNA analysis of Jonathan, a giant tortoise on St Helena, found chemical patterns on his mitochondrial genes matching much younger animals. Everything else about him matched his age.
An Astronaut Pikachu flew to the International Space Station in April and came home in June. The European Space Agency is now touring it round six museums.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 splashed down off Los Angeles on Thursday after more than 3,792 orbits of the Earth. Each one ended where it began.
The James Webb Space Telescope watched WISE 0855, the coldest known brown dwarf, for eleven hours, taking a spectrum every fifteen minutes. Its clouds thicken and thin as it turns.
Surfers Against Sewage has analysed water company data for 2025 and counted more than 100,000 discharges. The hours are recorded per overflow.
Eighteen hominin fossils from Drimolen include the site's first adult Homo erectus. The child was described first.
An Adelaide University study at Monarto Safari Park found that whole carcasses on a feast-and-fast routine nearly tripled feeding time and restored a wild rhythm. The rhythm arrived on a roster.
An Oxford-led study of Mongolian microfossils undermines the argument that a superbly preserved deposit without animals proves animals had not yet evolved. The new estimate is 800 to 700 million years ago.
Francis Halzen is honoured for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, which catches particles from the distant universe. Its detecting medium was already on site.
Cornell researchers report that BC200, a gene active in human neurons, kept the ability to move around genomes. It has turned up inside a human poxvirus.
A new FAO report synthesises a decade of soil science and finds loss far outpacing natural regeneration. In the American Midwest, earlier research put the gap at tenfold to a thousandfold.
Uranium-lead dating of zircon puts the Ames impact at about 370 million years ago. The fossils that dated it older were telling the truth about the wrong rock.
A team in Hefei raised the critical temperature of an ultrathin niobium diselenide device by up to 5.4 per cent using engineered vacuum fluctuations. The material itself was not altered.
Magnetofossils recovered from the North Atlantic carry a vortex magnetic structure suited to reading both the direction and the strength of Earth's field. Nobody knows what made them.
LOCUS covers all 50 states, more than 3,000 counties and about 6,000 local jurisdictions. Nobody has read it, and that turns out to be the point.
A knitted three-dimensional textile raised yields by as much as 3.56 times in tunnel trials at North Carolina State University. The researchers had expected the opposite result.
A superfluid helium design published in npj Quantum Information predicts error rates about 100 times lower than today's superconducting qubits. No prototype has been built yet.
A 1960 paper in Science fitted 24 population estimates spanning two millennia and extrapolated to infinity. The date is six weeks away.
Researchers in Kobe traced isotope-tagged amino acids from larval food into the heads of adult flies. The share falls to 46 per cent by day six.
SpaceX's fourteenth Starship test flight became the first to circle the planet, despite an engine failure on ascent. It had planned six loops of Earth and came home after roughly one.
University College London tested Bionic Reading on 90 skilled readers across three bolding conditions. The eyes complied; the reading did not.
More than 12,000 fossils, the oldest 1.75 billion years old, were found in mudstone drill cores held by the Northern Territory Geological Survey. They had been on the shelf for rather less than that.
A team wrote on Egyptian papyrus with ink dosed with lead, carbonised the results in a furnace and X-rayed them. The lead absorbed as much as 25 times more X-rays than the charred papyrus around it.
Uppsala University's Kallt och svettigt project ran for a year, from Scania to Norrbotten. Comfort turns out to be measurable, and unevenly distributed.
Engineered receptor pairs cut bacterial growth by about 53% in a laboratory model plant, without slowing its growth. Too many guards, the team reports, get in the way.
A study in Scientific Reports, built from interviews with wildlife scouts and community elders around Mount Elgon, finds elephants selecting 35 plant species, 25 of them known locally as remedies.
Physicists at TU Dortmund have shown separate continuous time crystals inside a semiconductor locking to a common frequency, coupled by spin-polarised electrons. The effect has a measured range.
A study of 103 genomes and 44 fossil species places the ancestor of all bats in Late Paleocene Europe, rejecting Africa, Asia and North America.
A study in Rayalaseema finds house crows eat 30 to 40 neem fruits at a sitting and deposit the seeds a kilometre or two away. Flock sizes are down by about half since 2015.
An amateur astronomer choosing a campsite in Quebec spotted a circle on satellite imagery. Earlier geological mapping on the ground had read the rocks as volcanic.
Researchers in Japan have identified branched-chain fatty acids in cat urine that differ reliably between individual animals. The compounds turn up in lions, tigers and lynxes too.
A ten-year experiment at NIST has produced a new value for the gravitational constant. It does not match the French result obtained by the same method.