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Weight regain seems to occur within 2 years of sto...
Drugs like Ozempic have transformed how we treat obesity, but a review of almost 40 studies shows it...
Hunting with poison arrows may have begun 60,000 y...
A collection of arrow points excavated in South Africa has provided the oldest direct evidence of hu...
Hominin fossils from Morocco may be close ancestor...
The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa...
Super-low-density worlds reveal how common planeta...
Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-densit...
How rethinking your relationship with time could g...
You might feel like the days and weeks are slipping by. Here is how one psychologist says you can sh...
AI chatbots miss urgent issues in queries about wo...
AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relatin...
CAR T-cell therapy makes ageing guts heal themselv...
Immune cells are most commonly engineered to kill cancers, but now, scientists have shown the techni...
Early humans may have begun butchering elephants 1...
A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may ...
The first quantum fluctuations set into motion a h...
The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the sp...
Passwords will be on the way out in 2026 as passke...
The curse of having to remember easily hackable passwords may soon be over, as a new alternative is ...
Jellyfish sleep about as much as humans do – and n...
The benefits of sleep may be more universal than we thought. We know it helps clear waste from the b...
The secret weapon that could finally force climate...
An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwave...
The first commercial space stations will start orb...
For nearly three decades, the International Space Station has been the only destination in low Earth...
US will need both carrots and sticks to reach net ...
Modelling suggests both carbon taxes and green subsidies will be necessary to decarbonise the US eco...
Northern Greenland ice dome melted before and coul...
The Prudhoe ice dome disappeared during a warm period 7000 years ago. Global warming could cause sim...
What if the idea of the autism spectrum is complet...
For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it co...
Weird clump in the early universe is piping hot an...
A galaxy cluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how...
El Niño was linked to famines in Europe in the ear...
A study of 160 European famines between 1500 and 1800 shows that El Niño weather events led to the o...
