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'Bone collector' caterpillar wears dead insect bod...
A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongsi...
Signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b may just b...
Last week astronomers reported hints of biological activity on a distant planet, but a re-analysis o...
Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took o...
A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evol...
Reading for pleasure has plummeted over the past 2...
People in the US are reading for pleasure less and less, despite it being linked to better sleep, im...
Colossal ancient icebergs left grooves on the bott...
Scientists have found scour marks on the seabed made by giant icebergs about 18,000 years ago, and t...
The supplement that really can improve your brain ...
Most supplements that claim to help your brain have never been thoroughly tested, but one has convin...
Daily doses of peanuts could desensitise adults wi...
Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved treatment to reduce...
First evidence of gladiator fight with lion seen i...
A man who lived in Roman-occupied Britain was bitten by a big cat, probably in a gladiator arena, an...
Can climate science attribute economic damage to m...
Climate researchers argue their science has advanced enough to directly link emissions from particul...
Lyme disease treated with antibiotic that doesn't ...
Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumo...
Mining the Arctic's precious resources is a fool's...
With ice and permafrost thawing fast, nations are racing to exploit the Arctic's newly accessible tr...
Dire wolf 'de-extinction' criticised by conservati...
The attempted creation of dire wolves could undermine conservation efforts by making people think ex...
Ultra-secure quantum data sent over existing inter...
Two commercial telecommunications facilities have been connected by a secure quantum network that us...
How astonishing observatories could do big physics...
As humanity prepares to return to the moon, scientists also have ideas for huge lunar experiments th...
Bats that walk backwards have developed unusual na...
Greater mouse-tailed bats crawl backwards over cave walls, and it seems they use their long tails to...
Powerful blasts of X-rays could reveal a black hol...
Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know w...
We can build quantum computers using the rules of ...
Machine learning helped show how harnessing the weird effects of Einstein’s special relativity could...
Phone game lowers social anxiety by shifting focus...
The game, called StarStarter, rewards players for directing their attention away from negative stimu...
