Chimpanzee Sultan (Image Credit: Zentrum für Geschichte der Psychologie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg via University of Auckland) More than a century ago, a small group of chimpanzees helped revolutionise the way scientists understood intelligence. Through a series of pioneering experiments on the Spanish island of Tenerife, these apes demonstrated that they could solve problems using insight rather…

Astronomers have spent years using the James Webb Space Telescope to examine the atmospheres of distant worlds, hoping those thin outer layers would reveal what lies beneath. For one of the galaxy’s most abundant classes of planets, that assumption may need another look.Many warm sub-Neptunes could contain far more water than their visible atmospheres indicate….