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As global temperatures continue to climb, plants face a problem animals don't: they can't move. Stuck in place, they have to find ways to survive heat that they have no way of escaping.

Many people think of science as something distant and a little intimidating. A world of labs, equations and experts that has nothing to do with ordinary life.

This is precisely what a group of scientists did while excavating an ancient aristocratic tomb at the Liujiawa archaeological site in northern China. The cemetery goes back to the Spring and Autumn period in Chinese history, which was a period of great rivalry between different states.

When a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel, physicists have long assumed its fate is sealed: it collapses under its gravity and becomes a black hole. A new theoretical study suggests there may be another, stranger possibility.

Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte discusses India's potential as a dinosaur hotspot and the importance of young scientists in discovery.

The National Science Foundation on Thursday reversed a decision to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network after vigorous objections from Democratic lawmakers and scientists who rely on it to track everything from ocean circulation to extreme weather.

For most of modern cosmology, scientists have worked with a surprisingly simple assumption: the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion has remained unchanged throughout cosmic history. Known as dark energy, this invisible component is thought to make up nearly 70 per cent of the cosmos, yet its true nature remains one of science's greatest unsolved puzzles.Now, a new theoretical study inspired by recent observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is exploring a provocative possibility.

For years, popular history portrayed Neanderthals as one-dimensional survivalists, focused only on immediate needs and living close to the surface. That view changed after a discovery in a French cave that appears to predate Homo sapiens in Europe by thousands of years.

Imagine making a discovery so far ahead of everyone else that the experts in your own field simply do not believe you. They shrug, they look away, some of them quietly decide you have lost the thread.