- July 23, 2025
AI beats goalkeepers at predicting which way penalty taker will shoot
Goalkeepers struggle to guess which way a penalty taker will shoot JAVIER SORIANO/AFP via Getty Images Deep learning models trained on more than 1000 penalty
Your chance of having a boy or girl may not be 50/50
A woman’s age may determine whether she has only sons or daughters Marko Pekic/Getty Images You may assume that a woman’s chance of having a
Neanderthal groups had their own local food culture
An illustration of a Neanderthal group preparing food LUIS MONTANYA/MARTA MONTANYA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Neanderthals may have had traditional ways of preparing food that were particular
Most warming this century may be due to air pollution cuts
Sulphate pollution, which has a cooling effect, can come from coal power plants Frank Herrmann/Getty Images Clouds have been getting darker and reflecting less sunlight
Artificial cooling ‘urgent’ for Great Barrier Reef after warming spike
Coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland, Australia Nature Picture Library/Alamy Strategies to artificially shade Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from rising temperatures are
Forests’ vanishing snow is also bad news for carbon storage
Forests like Mount Mansfield State Forest in Vermont are losing their snowpacks Douglas Rissing/Getty Images Many forests are losing their winter snowpack as global temperatures
Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse
Global warming is causing forest die-offs today, just as it did during the Permian-Triassic extinction event INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images After a sharp rise
Stunning image of a supernova reveals a dead star that exploded twice
Two concentric rings appear around the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5, indicating that it exploded twice ESO/P. Das et al. Background stars (Hubble): K. Noll et
X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less painful
Mammograms can be painful, but they may not need to be Daria Artemenko/Alamy Getting an X-ray can be uncomfortable – you may have to lay
Extreme winter weather isn’t down to a wavier jet stream
A wavy polar jet stream can bring icy storms further south Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo Increasingly erratic winter weather in the northern
