We may finally know why gold stays so shiny
Gold doesn’t tarnish like other metals mauritius images GmbH/Alamy Silver goes dull, copper turns green and iron rusts, but gold
Women’s better memories may delay Alzheimer’s diagnosis by years
We’re learning more about how Alzheimer’s disease presents differently in men and women Maskot/Alamy Women tend to have more robust
Bitter Honey review: New Scientist recommends a devastating account of farming honeybees
A honeybee flies with pollen balls stored in pollen baskets on its legs Jennie Durant Bitter HoneyJennie DurantPrinceton University Press
The ‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about to break away
The Araon, a South Korean ice-breaker vessel, navigates a bed of sea ice near the Thwaites glacier in January 2026
Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep their carbon locked up?
Charred trees still standing after a wildfire in Glacier National Park, Montana Gorski/NurPhoto/Shutterstock In 2021, a smouldering underground coal seam
A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa
Aerial view of the Kafue Rift southern boundary fault zone. The hot springs where researchers sampled gases lie in the
A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing
The Bering Strait separates Alaska and Russia Ocean Color/OB.DAAC/OBPG/NASA It would be an engineering project on a truly epic scale,
Man destined for Alzheimer’s may have been saved by accidental therapy
Doug Whitney (left, pictured with his son Brian in November 2022) is genetically predisposed to develop Alzheimer’s, but has so
Why the FDA rejected a ‘breakthrough’ melanoma drug
For patients whose skin cancer doesn’t respond to traditional treatments, a new drug called RP1 has been a lifeline—at least
Weird ‘transdimensional’ state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
A graphene sheet is 2D – but some thin materials may not fit neatly into that category ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO