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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.

The 2026 El Nino is pushing Pacific temperatures above past super event benchmarks for June. Scientists say it is developing over unusually warm global oceans, which could change or intensify its effects.

There is something quietly circular about the sight of yesterday's lunch becoming tomorrow's stationery. In Japan's Kagawa Prefecture, where bowls of thick Sanuki udon are part of the local identity, unwanted noodles are being given a second life that few would have predicted.

A growing population and finite phosphorus reserves have made efficient nutrient management one of the biggest challenges facing modern agriculture. Scientists have now uncovered new details about a little-known form of phosphorus hidden within living soil microbes.

They are everywhere in our daily routines, wandering across cities, crossing roads and streets with ease, using a mere flap of their wings. Pigeons are such an inseparable part of city life that one hardly notices what it feels like to be a pigeon, how pigeons perceive the world around them.

In the dry storytelling of palaeontology, certain discoveries tend to arrive with a kind of quiet disruption. Not the sort that rewrites textbooks overnight, but one that shifts the edges of what was assumed about a landscape long gone.

Jonathan, a 194-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise on Saint Helena, has been recognised as a Guinness World Records icon. Scientists say his exceptional lifespan could offer clues to extreme longevity and healthy ageing.

For centuries, one of the most extraordinary living giants in Asia stood unnoticed among the remote mountains of Taiwan. Hidden within rugged forests and protected by difficult terrain, the colossal tree escaped scientific documentation despite its immense size.