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Researchers find massive merger’s signature aftershocks hidden in 2019 data from LIGO and Virgo detectors.

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

Start with pen and paper, keep things simple, do your coding at the end, say data visualisation specialists.

Assessing global mean temperature rise using the average warming over the previous one or two decades will delay formal recognition of when Earth breaches the Paris agreement’s 1.5 °C guard rail. Here is what’s needed to avoid the wait.

An accidental meeting.

Mathematical biologist, philosopher and historian of science who challenged the vision of science as a masculine activity.

Sensors deployed at magnetically quiet rural sites looked for axions and ‘hidden photons’ — with no luck yet.

The ‘anthrobots’ were able to repair a scratch in a layer of neurons in the lab.

The power naps of the chinstrap penguin are even briefer and more frequent when it is tending eggs.

The bottlenose dolphin’s keen ‘electroreception’ sense might help it to locate buried prey and navigate the seas.

Researchers have extracted absorbent materials from the succulent Agave sisalana for making local, low-cost period products.

Draft resolution on a ‘loss and damage fund’ has attracted more than $400 million, but climate-vulnerable countries say more cash is needed.

Ring-like device blends nanoelectronics and folded RNA to track hormone levels without the need for invasive blood tests.

The whole genomes of 500,000 people in the UK Biobank will help researchers to probe our genetic code for links to disease.

Large language models such as that used by ChatGPT could soon become essential tools for diagnosing and treating patients. To protect people’s privacy and safety, medical professionals, not commercial interests, must drive their development and deployment.

Carbon fibres help to create a stable plasma with a uniform temperature. Plus, a soft robotic tentacle inspired by octopuses and materials called perovskites could help solar panels to deliver 20% more power.

At this week’s big climate summit and beyond, scientists are campaigning for microbes to be included in climate models and solutions.