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Our oral microbiome could hold the key to preventi...
A distinct set of microbes has been identified in people with obesity, which might help spot and tre...
Ancient giant kangaroos could have hopped despite ...
Long thought to have walked bipedally, like us, Australia’s extinct giant kangaroos have features th...
Does limiting social media help teens? We'll final...
A trial will finally reveal whether limiting the time teens spend on social media really does affect...
Strips of dried placenta help wounds heal with les...
Donated placentas can be processed into thin, sterilised sheets that are packed with natural healing...
Piercing crocodile close-up wins ecology photo com...
A striking shot of biting flies on the head of a crocodile is among the winning entries in the Briti...
Natural ovulation the best option before an IVF fr...
Women using frozen embryos as part of their IVF treatment can either choose to use a medicated cycle...
Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had fou...
Extraordinary fossils of 518-million-year-old jawless fish, among the earliest known vertebrates, ap...
Oldest known rock art is a 68,000-year-old hand st...
Newly discovered rock art sites in Sulawesi, Indonesia, that date to nearly 68,000 years ago are tho...
Ape-like hominin Paranthropus was more adaptable t...
A fossil discovery in northern Ethiopia expands the known range of Paranthropus, a genus of strong-j...
Bird retinas work without oxygen, and now scientis...
The light-sensitive tissue of birds’ eyes is not supplied with oxygen by blood vessels – instead, it...
Alex Garland’s The Bone Temple is brutal, brillian...
This follow-up to the influential 28 Days Later continues to take the zombie movie franchise in a su...
Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big...
A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit th...
Bubble feeding trick spreads through humpback whal...
Humpback whales off the west coast of Canada have learned a cooperative hunting technique from whale...
Cross-training may be the key to a long life
People who combine different types of exercise - such as running, cycling and swimming - seem to liv...
Scientists investigate ‘dark oxygen’ in deep-sea m...
Startling findings in 2024 suggested that metallic nodules on the sea floor produce oxygen and might...
World is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy'
Countries have spent beyond their sustainable water budgets for so long that critical assets are dep...
Chernobyl cooling systems have lost power but melt...
An electrical outage at Chernobyl nuclear power plant risks dangerous fuel overheating, but experts ...
Satellites could use magnetic fields to avoid coll...
Two or more satellites could communicate and manoeuvre around one another using magnetic fields, alt...
