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- Charcoal hidden in the pigment finally puts a date on Dordogne cave artTraces of carbon in two black figures at Font-de-Gaume allowed the first direct radiocarbon dating of Palaeolithic paintings in the region.
- Fields Medals honour four mathematicians who closed century-old questionsHong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman received the discipline's most coveted award in Philadelphia; Wang is only its third female laureate.
- Petrified wood from the Kyffhäuser becomes an archive of Earth's historyFive generations of mineral in the quartz of fossil tree trunks trace 300 million years of subsidence, heating and uplift in central Europe.
- Farm effect decoded: nine barn bacteria protect children from asthmaA Munich-led team has traced the full chain of action for the first time – from the cow's gut through barn air to two receptors in children's airways.
- Graduation rates at US tribal schools reach a record 79%Twenty-one Bureau of Indian Education high schools finished the year above 90%, though part of the decade-long rise reflects corrected counting of transferring students.
- Pompeii rebuilds a rare ceiling fresco from a thousand fallen fragmentsRestorers assembled the pieces onto a curved frame reproducing the original vault, recovering more than a quarter of a banquet hall ceiling showing Dionysus and Ariadne.
- Placebo pain relief runs along two different routes in the brainPooled data from 409 participants across 16 imaging studies show that words and conditioning share a core mechanism — but conditioning engages further circuits of its own.
- Betelgeuse B: the sharpest image yet ends a search of more than a centuryUsing the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers confirm the red supergiant's companion at 6.1 sigma — raising a new question about its future supernova.
- Zambia's leopards are recovering after a royal switch to synthetic fursA six-year study offers the first measurable link between replacing ceremonial skins with high-quality fakes and a wild population that has begun to grow again.
- A 216-character counterexample ends an 87-year-old mathematical conjectureLevent Alpöge used Anthropic's Fable 5 to find a polynomial map that breaks the Jacobian conjecture — a result other mathematicians could verify by hand within hours.
- China's first asteroid defence mission takes shape, with launch set for December 2027Two spacecraft on one rocket: one to survey the target asteroid for months, the other to strike it — revealing more about its interior than any previous attempt.
- Farmers as a firefighting reserve: how an online portal links farms to fire brigadesAround 500 businesses have now listed nearly 1,000 machines for fire callouts on the Red Farmer platform — a Palatinate stopgap that grew into a nationwide network.
- Paris is digging its buried second river back into daylightNearly four kilometres of the Bièvre, sealed under concrete since 1912, now flow in the open again — with €68.6 million committed to extend the work to 2030.
- Fuel cells for heavy trucks: Toyota becomes cellcentric's third ownerDaimler Truck, Volvo and Toyota will each hold a third of the Kirchheim/Teck developer — and intend to scale up hydrogen long-haul freight together.
- First true sugar detected in interstellar spaceIn a molecular cloud near the centre of the Milky Way, a team found erythrulose — a building block of life that must have formed long before stars and planets.
- A sulfur molecule revives the repair signal in ageing muscleResearchers at Kyushu University have found a compound that shields the growth factor HGF from an age-related blockade — and strengthens it in the process.
- A Jupiter-sized object 73 light-years away has broken astronomy's vocabularyNot a moon, not quite a planet: a new detection with ESO's Very Large Telescope has astronomers proposing a fresh category, the exosatellite.
- Three crew members return safely from 241 days on the space stationSoyuz MS-28 brought a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts down on the Kazakh steppe, closing a mission of cancer research, orbital manufacturing and two spacewalks.
- Venus is geologically livelier than thought – its rift edges give it awayThe first high-resolution 3D simulations from ETH Zurich suggest some Venusian rifts are young and may still be opening today.
- Eating better would be the cheaper path – ten models do the mathsA shift towards more plant-based food could cut CO2 emissions from agricultural land-use change by 76 per cent by 2050, a new Nature study finds.
- Hollywood's Cinerama Dome to reopen in 2028 after Sony takes it overShut since the pandemic and once thought lost, the 1963 landmark will be restored and run by Alamo Drafthouse, with renovations starting next month.
- A hug before the scramble: apes use reassuring touch to keep the peaceFilming 116 bonobos and chimpanzees before competitive feeding, researchers found that friendly contact beforehand predicted peaceful sharing afterwards.
- EU ban takes effect: large retailers may no longer destroy unsold clothingSince 19 July, big companies must resell, donate or refurbish as-new returns – and disclose whatever they still dispose of.
- An 87-year-old mathematical puzzle has fallen – with help from an AI modelA counterexample found by mathematician Levent Alpöge using the language model Claude Fable 5 disproves the Jacobian conjecture, and was independently confirmed within hours.