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Cord blood banking is not living up to its promise...
Banking a baby’s umbilical cord blood was once seen as a reasonable way to protect their future heal...
How captured carbon dioxide could help mine carbon...
Captured carbon dioxide could be injected deep in the Earth to dissolve rocks, freeing up nickel and...
Physicists are waging a cosmic battle over the nat...
Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy, a mysterious ...
A photon caught in two places at once could destro...
The idea of a multiverse of universes is derived from a particular interpretation of quantum mechani...
Trump's Golden Dome defence project could spur a s...
US President Trump has proposed a Golden Dome defence system that includes missile interceptors in s...
Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just g...
A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, ...
Are microplastics in ultra-processed food harming ...
Many people are worried about the health effects of ultra-processed foods and microplastics, but cou...
Why birds decorate their nests with weird and unna...
Puzzlingly, many birds add human-made material to their nests with no obvious function – now there i...
We assume women are morally superior to men – and ...
Women seem to be judged as being more moral than men, which could mean they have further to fall if ...
Flash floods sweep through vital sanctuary for Aus...
Wildlife carers fostering some of Australia’s most precious animals have had to rescue them one by o...
New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar ...
The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our sol...
Ultracold atoms have been 'hyperentangled' for the...
By exerting unprecedented control over extremely cold atoms, researchers have put them in a state wi...
Giant ground sloths evolved three different times ...
An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigan...
Special contact lenses let you see infrared light ...
Nanoparticle-infused contact lenses can transform infrared radiation into different colours of visib...
Penguin poo helps keep Antarctica cool
Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which boosts particles in the atm...
Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really ...
Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct d...
Giant boulder on clifftop in Tonga was carried by ...
A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inlan...
Honeybees are getting confused by electric polluti...
Airborne electric fields similar to those from nearby power lines seem to have a dramatic effect on ...
