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Why the amazing Altamura Man fossil remains a myst...
This month we’re in an Italian cave with a bellissimo fossil. If I was giving a live talk, at this p...
Is youth mental health really worse today than it ...
Young people's mental health is declining, statistics suggest, but some have questioned whether this...
We keep finding water on Mars – here are all the p...
Researchers recently found a possible reservoir of liquid water more than 11 kilometres below Mars's...
MDMA therapies hit a roadblock – what's next?
The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected the psychedelic drug MDMA as a treatment for post-t...
New spin on quantum theory forces rethink of a fun...
In the quantum realm, a particle’s properties can be separate from the particle itself, including it...
Russian-occupied Ukrainian nuclear plant at risk, ...
A fire at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has former workers at the...
We are finally improving prostate cancer diagnoses...
Cases of prostate cancer are surging alarmingly around the world. Thankfully, we are developing more...
Endangered skates saved from extinction by hatchin...
The Maugean skate (Zearaja maugeana) is only found in one habitat in Australia, which is under threa...
Ancient plant artefact reveals humanity's epic jou...
We know that modern humans took one of two routes to first reach Australia, and now an ancient chunk...
The JUICE spacecraft may be visible on a near-Eart...
On 19 and 20 August, the JUICE mission will make the first ever attempt to get a gravitational boost...
The climate impact of feeding ourselves is getting...
If we want to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from food production, we have to make it more effi...
We could make fuel and fertiliser by recycling was...
Wastewater, which is full of pollutants that contain nitrogen, can be directly fed into a new chemic...
Has the mystery of life’s 'handedness' finally bee...
All living creatures use only the left or right-handed forms of certain molecules, and now we might ...
Why overcoming your cynicism could be key to a hea...
Evidence suggests that cynicism is bad for your health. Neuroscientist Jamil Zaki describes the thre...
Covid variant JN.1 may have become dominant due to...
The covid-19 variant JN.1 may have been able to evade antibodies and spread globally due to one crit...
A black hole devouring a giant star gives clues to...
In the centre of a distant galaxy, a supermassive black hole has swallowed up a star 9 times the sun...
The surprising wall pattern that could keep buildi...
A zigzag design can maximise how much heat walls radiate into space, while minimising heat absorptio...
How Einstein was both right and wrong about gravit...
A century ago, Albert Einstein suggested that the universe might contain ripples in space-time, know...
