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Pompeii building site reveals how the Romans made ...
Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists...
Timing cancer drug delivery around our body clock ...
The time of day that cancer drugs are administered could make a big difference to a patient's outcom...
The audacious quest to light up the sky with artif...
How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis...
We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random num...
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of...
2025 is the second hottest year since records bega...
Mean temperatures this year approached 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, making it the second h...
Odd elements in supernova blast might have implica...
Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, h...
How worried should you be about spending too much ...
Screen time has been linked to all sorts of problems, from depression and obesity to poor sleep. But...
What the family drama of interbreeding polar and g...
A hybrid grolar bear saga is unfolding in the Arctic, and the tale of this strange family has much t...
Extreme heat hampers children’s early learning
Children regularly exposed to temperatures over 30°C (86°F) have lower scores on literacy and numera...
Too busy to meditate? Microdosing mindfulness has ...
Small bursts of mindfulness practices lasting a minute or less can have unexpected benefits for thos...
Are we living in a simulation? This experiment cou...
The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists...
Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries ke...
Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probabl...
Tattooing may trigger localised damage to the immu...
There is relatively little information on the long-term health effects of tattooing, but a couple of...
Hunter-gather groups are much less egalitarian tha...
There is a widespread belief that altruism and equality drive social behaviour in traditional hunter...
Quantum experiment settles a century-old row betwe...
Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, an...
How Australian teens are planning to get around th...
From legal challenges to lesser-known apps, the teenagers of Australia are already preparing to push...
AI can influence voters' minds. What does that mea...
Voters change their opinions after interacting with an AI chatbot – but, encouragingly, it seems tha...
Why is AI making computers and games consoles more...
The AI industry consumes vast amounts of energy, fresh water and investor cash. Now it also needs me...
