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SpaceX prepares for Starship flight with first 'ch...
SpaceX is gearing up for the fifth launch of its massive Starship rocket, following four increasingl...
Social media companies change their policies in th...
Between 2005 and 2021, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were more likely to make policy changes in the ...
Wafer-thin light sail could help us reach another ...
A mission to the sun’s closest neighbouring star, Alpha Centauri, could be made faster thanks to a t...
Dark matter may solve the mystery of how colossal ...
Astrophysicists aren’t sure how supermassive black holes get close enough to merge, a mystery called...
AI can reveal what’s on your screen via signals le...
Electromagnetic radiation leaking from the cable between your computer and monitor can be intercepte...
Millions of trees could grow faster with a boost f...
The largest tree nursery in North America is helping scale up efforts to inoculate seedlings with na...
Watch a robot peel a squash with human-like dexter...
A robot can hold a squash, pumpkin or melon in one hand, while it is peeled by the other
Biodegradable microplastics may actually be worse ...
Biodegradable plastic that gets broken down into microplastics may decrease soil nitrogen levels mor...
Mars rover found a rock with possible signs of anc...
The Perseverance rover has found some of the most promising hints of ancient Martian life yet, but w...
A type of brain cell helps explain the calming inf...
Mouse pups have increased activity in certain neurons in the centre of their brains when they intera...
We may finally know what caused the biggest cosmic...
The gamma ray burst known as GRB221009A is the biggest explosion astronomers have ever glimpsed and ...
Evidence mounts that shingles vaccines protect aga...
Being immunised against shingles has been linked to a reduced dementia risk before and now a study s...
DeepMind AI gets silver medal at International Mat...
AlphaProof, an AI from Google DeepMind, came close to matching the top participants in a prestigious...
Space travel may make muscles age extremely quickl...
Muscle cells that spent a week on the International Space Station revealed changes in gene expressio...
One of Earth's major carbon sinks collapsed in 202...
Forests and other land ecosystems emitted almost as much carbon dioxide as they absorbed in 2023 – i...
Why many studies wrongly claim it’s healthy to dri...
It is becoming clear that any amount of alcohol is harmful, so why do so many studies claim that mod...
Early humans began wiping out elephant relatives 1...
Elephant-like species started going extinct faster when early humans evolved, and the rate of extinc...
Lunar samples reveal exactly when the moon’s large...
By analysing lunar samples from NASA's Apollo missions, researchers calculated exactly when – and wh...
