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Pickled snake in museum is a new species – but may...
A snake kept in a museum in Zimbabwe since 1982 has been assigned to a new species, the Nyanga rinkh...
How to see the Draconid meteor shower peak tonight...
The Draconid meteor shower is happening between 6 and 10 October, peaking on 9 October, and you shou...
How asteroids can help us understand our place in ...
With the recent launch of the Psyche mission and the return of samples from the asteroid Bennu, aste...
Some of our cells move – and they do it by emittin...
A mammalian cell cannot crawl just anywhere – computer simulations based on experiments suggest that...
Largest known solar storm struck Earth 14,300 year...
By comparing the rings of 140 trees buried in the bank of a French river, researchers estimate that ...
Placebos may ease pain by acting on brain systems ...
Placebos may minimise pain by decreasing activity in systems of the brain that regulate emotions, a ...
Online game could deter people from being radicali...
Techniques developed to stop people believing conspiracy theories could be adapted to prevent terror...
Robots could make farms more biodiverse with preci...
Autonomous farm machinery may enable farmers to scale up the benefits of plant interactions, accordi...
Countries need to coordinate climate action, says ...
Smaller groups of countries should be working together to coordinate on policies to reduce emissions...
Why trying to photograph a black hole was a massiv...
Astronomers working on the Event Horizon Telescope project didn't know if their attempt to photograp...
JWST should soon glimpse the very first stars born...
The James Webb Space Telescope is looking ever further back in the universe’s history and the unexpe...
How the end of the universe was completely rewritt...
Cosmologists in the 1960s thought they had the end of the universe worked out – then an unknown PhD ...
Hybrid puffins may have emerged in the 20th centur...
Genetic analysis suggests that two subspecies of Atlantic puffin began interbreeding in Norway in th...
Bing Chat AI tricked into solving CAPTCHA tests wi...
Microsoft's AI-powered Bing Chat can be tricked into solving anti-bot tests with stories about decea...
How to spot October’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse...
An annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse because of the way the sun and moon...
AI can detect if you have recently smoked cannabis...
An artificial intelligence model could one day alert medical professionals if someone has recently u...
Wegovy and Ozempic ingredient linked to rare stoma...
A study involving 16 million people in the US found that those prescribed so-called GLP-1-agonists h...
Sea level rise is already leading to longer commut...
Flooding from rising tides has added at least 23 minutes to the total annual commuting time for peop...
