First treaty to protect the high seas comes into force
A trawler in the Southern Ocean Shutterstock A treaty that will protect areas of the largely lawless high seas from
Woolly rhino genome recovered from meat in frozen wolf pup’s stomach
The woolly rhino was one of the icons of the last glacial period The History Collection / Alamy A genome
Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2
Trees floating towards the Arctic Ocean Carl Christoph Stadie/The Alfred Wegener Institute Cutting down swathes of boreal forest and sinking
Tree bark microbiome has important overlooked role in climate
Melaleuca wetland forests in New South Wales, Australia, are hotspots for tree microbial life Luke Jeffrey / Southern Cross University
Northern Greenland ice dome melted before and could melt again
Researchers working at Prudhoe Dome in Greenland Caleb K. Walcott-George An ice dome in northern Greenland once melted completely at
Fossil analysis adds to debate over how earliest known hominin walked
Sahelanthropus fossils (centre) compared with a chimpanzee (left) and a human (right) Wiliams et al., Sci. Adv. 12, eadv0130 A
Star that seemed to vanish more than 130 years ago is found again
An image captured by a telescope at the Grasslands Observatory in Arizona. The “x” is where E. E. Barnard saw
Mathematicians spent 2025 exploring the edge of mathematics
When numbers get large, things get weird Jezper / Alamy In 2025, the edges of mathematics came a little more
Physicists used ‘dark photons’ in an effort to rewrite physics in 2025
Dark photons offer a new explanation for the double-slit experiment RUSSELL KIGHTLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A core tenet of quantum theory
Putting data centres in space isn’t going to happen any time soon
Starcloud wants to build a data centre satellite that is 4 kilometres by 4 kilometres Starcloud Could AI’s insatiable thirst