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Sickle cell disease is now curable, but the treatm...
CRISPR gene editing has made it possible to cure sickle cell disease, which affects millions worldwi...
The UK's official swimming rivers are too polluted...
Just two rivers in the UK are designated as "bathing waters", and both are currently rated in poor h...
Covid-19 vaccines during pregnancy protect newborn...
A large study of infants shows that getting a covid-19 vaccination while pregnant can significantly ...
Bumblebees can teach each other how to open a puzz...
When researchers taught a bumblebee to push a lever for a reward, the knowledge spread through its c...
AI creates pictures of what people are seeing by a...
An artificial intelligence that can create pictures of what people are looking at based on brain sca...
The truth about cats' domestication and why they r...
Cats have a reputation for being aloof and untamed, but recent studies suggest they may be more attu...
Drunk mice sober up twice as fast when given hormo...
Intoxicated mice that had lost consciousness took half as long to wake up and get to their feet afte...
First 3D-printed rocket is about to launch into sp...
US aerospace startup Relativity Space is planning to launch its 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket on 8 Marc...
Money actually does buy happiness, says Nobel priz...
After reanalysing earlier studies, Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues have found that happiness cont...
UK faces rising costs for flood damage even with m...
With 1.8°C of warming, the average yearly cost of flood damage in the UK is predicted to increase by...
Females are not smaller than males in most mammal ...
The idea that male mammals are larger than females has persisted for more than a century, but an ana...
Gold hydrogen: Is there a huge reserve of clean fu...
Geologists think there may be vast natural stores of hidden hydrogen gas within Earth, but no one is...
How to understand wormholes and their weird quantu...
Classical relativity suggests that nothing could pass through a wormhole and exit, but quantum effec...
Antimatter neutrinos detected from a nuclear react...
A water-based detector has been used to spot antineutrinos from nuclear reactions hundreds of kilome...
The surprisingly useful liquids that mop up gases ...
Creating a porous liquid long seemed impossible. But now we are making them in earnest and they coul...
What is the UN high seas treaty and will it save t...
Nations have for the first time agreed on a framework for protecting marine life in international wa...
Galaxies’ missing matter may be found – but now th...
Most galaxies seemed to be missing a huge proportion of the matter we expected them to have – now re...
Creature review: Human nature is key to a sci-fi b...
The ballet Creature, adapted for film, worries about how we treat other primates, but its subtleties...
