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Elon Musk firm’s Colossus 2 data centre – the largest in the US – has been spewing out nitrogen oxide emissions from trailer-mounted gas turbines, an analysis suggests

Research shows that short practices of mindfulness are as good as, if not better than, long ones. Columnist David Robson takes a look at how we can incorporate these microhabits into our daily lives

The more we learn about chimpanzees, the more they resemble us – but the further back in time our shared ancestor seems to be. Columnist Michael Marshall explores how both can be true

Although one reader thinks it would be virtually impossible to tell if animals have a sense of beauty, they give their two cents on why humans do

A reader thinks outside the box on ways to mitigate against this slow-forming issue

Why do people appear younger and better-looking in a mirror than in a photograph? Are humans the only animals that cry? If so, why?

The stories we tell about the Vikings often say more about us than them. Archaeologist Neil Price's new book The Sea-King and the Sorceress tries to show the Norse as they were, says Michael Marshall

It turns out some of our readers do sneeze in their sleeps – but only in certain circumstances

With little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead end. However, new dark matter results suggest an exciting new way to hunt for reality's undiscovered ingredients

A site in China is just the third to give us an insight into the way the enigmatic Denisovans lived. The archaeology at the site suggests the ancient humans were skilled hunters, although their stone tools were relatively simple

Particle collisions are inherently quantum, but much of that character is lost when we turn them into classical data. Sarah Alam Malik explores whether preserving more of it could help us spot signs of dark matter and other new physics

Whether it's the original 1966 classic or one of its many modern spinoffs, there's a Star Trek story for everyone. Bethan Ackerley explores how newcomers can get acquainted with this daunting universe

After months covering the shocking rise of AI mathematics, reporter Matthew Sparkes decided to put a free chatbot to the test - and was shocked at the speed at which it solved an outstanding problem

Dive into new titles from major names including Carlo Rovelli, Maggie Aderin, Xand van Tulleken and Jim Al-Khalili, as well as a new biography of Stephen Hawking

Converting the proof of Fermat's last theorem into code that computers can check was expected to take years – Anthropic's Claude AI managed it in less than two weeks