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Apps that identify plants can be as little as 4 pe...
There are many smartphone apps that aim to identify plants from photographs, but tests have found th...
Your short-term memory can be unreliable after jus...
We know that long-term memory is fallible, and now it seems short-term memory can't be relied on eit...
We don't have any viable way of countering conspir...
Beliefs in conspiracy theories can damage societies and individuals, but the only effective ways to ...
Famous Benin Bronzes from West Africa used metal s...
Chemical analysis of metal sculptures made in West Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries provid...
The quantum world: A concise guide to the particle...
Get to grips with the deepest layer of reality we know of with our inventory of the subatomic realm,...
Polar ice sheets may retreat much faster than prev...
Traces on the sea floor suggest an ancient ice sheet retreated at more than 600 metres per day at th...
Snakes have been seen doing somersaults when they’...
Researchers filmed a dwarf reed snake doing an armless cartwheel to escape from danger by repeatedly...
Socially isolated animals seem to be better at sol...
A study in 13 species of ungulates, including horses, sheep, deer and llamas, found that the most in...
Animals that are social outliers seem to be better...
A study in 13 species of ungulates, including horses, sheep, deer and llamas, found that the most in...
Monkeys with human-like hands can be fooled by sle...
Capuchins, which have hands similar to ours, are deceived by a sleight-of-hand trick. But marmosets,...
My Amazon family’s gut microbes may help us fight ...
The Yanomami people of the Amazon have the world’s most diverse gut microbiome – and David Good, who...
Invasive Burmese python in Florida lays a record 9...
A female Burmese python – an invasive species in the US – has laid a clutch of 96 eggs in one go, al...
Crystal impervious to radiation could be used in s...
Putting two forms of semiconductor material called gallium oxide together seems to make it completel...
Australia’s detention of child asylum seekers has ...
Since 2012, Australia has detained hundreds of children seeking asylum, often for years. Now a revie...
Wild African elephants may have domesticated thems...
African savannah elephants play, care for their young and show social behaviours associated with dom...
NASA announced the four astronauts of the Artemis ...
NASA has selected four crew members to travel around the moon in its Artemis II mission, planned for...
Light interacts with its past self in twist on dou...
The double-slit experiment consists of light passing through two slits separated by a small space – ...
Ozone-destroying CFC chemicals are on the rise aga...
The production of CFCs was banned globally in 2010, but researchers have detected rising levels of f...
