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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 ...
How to boost your brain power just by changing how...
We mostly breathe subconsciously, but columnist Helen Thomson finds evidence that the brain function...
Extra cancer screening could help pick up early ca...
Dense breast tissue can make tumours hard to spot on mammogram scans, but adding another step to thi...
Why taping your mouth shut at night probably isn't...
Social media is awash with videos claiming that taping your mouth closed will improve your sleep – b...
Why the climate crown is ready for China to take –...
With the US in retreat from climate negotiations, China's Xi Jinping could become the next green glo...
Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise for spinal c...
People with incomplete cervical spinal cord injuries showed improvements to their hand and arm movem...
The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of...
Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their or...
Weird planet is orbiting backwards between two sta...
After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd pla...
How buried cables are revealing Earth’s interior i...
The globe is criss-crossed by unused fibre-optic cables. Now, researchers are using them to defend a...
West Nile virus detected in mosquitoes in the UK f...
“Fragments” of West Nile virus have been detected in UK mosquitoes, suggesting that the virus is cir...
China is readying a mission to two rocky bodies in...
China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission will soon be heading to two extremely different space rocks, and...
Tropical forest loss doubled in 2024 as wildfires ...
A record 67,000 square kilometres of primary rainforest was lost from the tropics in 2024, with glob...
Supergiant crustaceans may cover more than half of...
The enigmatic crustacean Alicella gigantea is the world’s largest amphipod, but like all deep-sea cr...
How the US military wants to use the world's large...
The world’s largest aircraft, called WindRunner, is being designed to carry huge wind turbine blades...
Earliest galaxy ever seen offers glimpse of the na...
The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such ea...
How an ancient alchemy technique is transforming m...
Today’s chemistry is a wet business, mostly done by mixing compounds in liquid solvents. But a push ...
Vaccine may treat cocaine addiction by blocking dr...
A vaccine that helps people overcome cocaine addiction has shown signs of being safe and effective i...
