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Watch a weird robot wiggle and flap like a seal mo...
A four-legged robot has been designed to imitate the bouncing and lunging motion of a seal on land, ...
We mess up when the stakes are high due to a disru...
A brain mechanism that enables us to carry out tasks to achieve a certain reward may get disrupted w...
We now know why we mess up when the stakes are hig...
A brain mechanism that enables us to carry out tasks to achieve a certain reward may get disrupted w...
One star being eaten by another will take revenge ...
Astronomers have found one huge star eating another, but the smaller star is predicted to eventually...
Bird flu has killed 20 critically endangered Calif...
A recent outbreak of avian flu has killed 15 per cent of the wild population of California condors, ...
Pill that zaps stomach cells could treat nausea an...
A capsule that electrically stimulates stomach cells has been tested in pigs, and could one day help...
Electric vehicles are rapidly taking off – but is ...
One in five cars sold worldwide in 2023 will be electric, but a mass shift away from the internal co...
Your essential guide to the many breathtaking wond...
An abridged inventory of everything there is in the universe – from rogue planets and exomoons to su...
Detailed image of supermassive black hole shows it...
An image of a black hole called M87* shows never-before-seen details of matter falling into its cent...
How ultra-processed food harms your health and how...
Ultra-processed foods contain artificial ingredients that impact our health in ways that we are only...
Can we use salt to lock away carbon for thousands ...
Preserving ‘carbon crops’ with salt and storing them in dry landfill sites to stop them decomposing ...
Cryptocurrency Ethereum has slashed its energy use...
An experimental update to Ethereum, the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency, has led to a dramatic...
Tiny yeast-filled robots help brew beer quickly an...
Millimetre-sized robots made of iron oxide and packed with yeast speed up fermentation of beer by sw...
Assassin bugs cover themselves in sticky plant res...
By covering themselves in resin from spinifex grass, Australian assassin bugs improve their chances ...
Wildfires have drastically reduced lynx habitat in...
Twenty years of wildfires have cut down habitats and prey crucial to lynx in the north-west US, slas...
Japanese Hakuto-R spacecraft seems to have crash-l...
A lunar lander from Japanese company ispace attempted to become the first craft from a private firm ...
What we can do to let the UK’s tamed rivers flow w...
In the UK, 97 per cent of rivers have been modified, blocked and otherwise corralled to suit our nee...
Was DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin really a victim ...
It is widely thought that Rosalind Franklin was a victim whose work on DNA was stolen, but a letter ...
