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Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liv...
An ambitious study has explored how the oral microbiome may affect our metabolic health, raising hop...
Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 1...
Since the early 20th century, people’s skulls have got rounder and their jaws have got wider, probab...
Doubts cast over 'wild' claim that magnetic contro...
Researchers in South Korea say they have made a major advance by turning on genes with an electromag...
The best new science fiction books of May 2026
New science fiction from big names including Ann Leckie, Alan Moore and Martha Wells are just some o...
The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer ...
Craig Venter has died aged 79. He was at the forefront of sequencing the human genome and of synthet...
We have figured out a new way to send messages int...
A technique inspired by the film Interstellar suggests a new way of communicating backwards in time,...
Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feel...
These unusual images were created by visual artist Daniel Regan by submerging Polaroid photographs i...
Is an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg – or any boss ...
Feedback has learned that, according to reports, Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg t...
Simple treatment tweak drastically reduces blood l...
A procedure that could be done in half an hour, and prepared ahead of time, could seriously reduce b...
Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neithe...
An experiment with a carbon material in a magnetic field has revealed a novel way for electrons to m...
Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than w...
A wave of dinosaur discoveries over the past decade has completely reshaped our understanding of the...
The chips in your phone are probably broken – and ...
Reports suggest that Apple is using defective chips originally destined for high-end devices to crea...
Scorpions reinforce their claws and stingers with ...
Many scorpion species use blends of iron, zinc and manganese to enhance the toughness of their deadl...
Extreme weather in 2025 drove record wildfire emis...
Europe, the fastest-warming continent, saw unprecedented wildfires and heatwaves in 2025, including ...
Cancer is increasing in young people and we still ...
Obesity might be to blame for part of the increase in cancer among young people, a study in the UK h...
People are betting on measles outbreaks – and that...
Millions of dollars are being spent on wagers predicting measles outbreaks in the US, which could he...
Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than ...
The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physic...
Humanoid robots may be about to break the 100-metr...
Robots can now run a half-marathon faster than humans and are rapidly homing in on the 100-metre spr...
