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Stick shaped by ancient humans is the oldest known...
Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years ...
Menstrual pad could give women insights into their...
A woman's fertility can be partly gauged by levels of a hormone that reflects how many eggs she has....
The best map of dark matter has revealed never-bef...
JWST has created a map of dark matter that is twice as good as anything we have had before, and it m...
The daring idea that time is an illusion and how w...
The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from...
Termination shock could make the cost of climate d...
Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause te...
Embracing sauna culture can lower dementia risk an...
Columnist Helen Thomson investigates the neurological benefits of saunas, and how heat therapy can h...
Mars's gravity may help control Earth’s cycle of i...
Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s c...
Bone cancer therapy unexpectedly makes tumours les...
A drug that kills cancer cells by puncturing them comes with an additional benefit: tests in mice su...
Sea turtles may be more resilient to global warmin...
An “epigenetic” adaptation could prevent large numbers of loggerhead turtles from hatching as female...
Why singing, dancing and engaging with art is good...
Whether it be singing, dancing or crafting, engaging in the arts is good for our health, and we're b...
Hybrid megapests evolving in Brazil are a threat t...
Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one pestic...
SpaceX’s Starlink dodged 300,000 satellite collisi...
The company’s mega-constellation is having to perform a huge number of manoeuvres to prevent a colli...
Why biological clocks get our 'true age' wrong – a...
Your chronological age can’t always tell you the state of your health, which is why biological clock...
Why did magic mushrooms evolve? We may finally hav...
Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in h...
Ancient bacterium discovery rewrites the origins o...
A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the ...
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...
