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Jupiter is smaller and more squashed than we thoug...
The gas giant has been measured for the first time in decades, trimming 8 kilometres from its diamet...
A weird cloud forms on Mars each year and now we k...
Astronomers have struggled to explain why a long and thin cloud forms above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcan...
Early Neanderthals hunted ibex on steep mountain s...
Ancient remains from a cave in Serbia show that Neanderthals were hunting mountain goats 300,000 yea...
Why simple tasks like charging your phone rely on ...
A hidden world of quantum metrologists ensure that everyday devices perform safely and correctly, bu...
Britain's economy thrived after the withdrawal of ...
An archaeological dig in northern England shows iron and lead processing continued and even increase...
Deflecting a deadly asteroid just got a lot less d...
Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we coul...
DNA cassette tape can store every song ever record...
By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, ...
Antibody cocktail could work as a universal flu tr...
A mix of three antibodies seems to protect mice against several strains of influenza and could one d...
Even in our digital world, materials still matter
Next to the flashy realm of AI, materials may seem quaint. But new quantum research could yield revo...
We evolved to match local micronutrient levels, wh...
Most human populations evolved to cope with low or high local levels of micronutrients such as zinc,...
Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking'...
An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational ...
NASA hasn't found life on Mars yet – but signs are...
A rock found last year on the surface of Mars offered tantalising evidence that life once existed on...
Which perimenopause treatments actually work?
For women going through perimenopause, there is no shortage of advice on how to deal with the sympto...
Tiny structure in the brain could be driving how m...
A part of the brain that is about the size of a sunflower seed in people could play a big role in ou...
Asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water flowing throu...
Samples retrieved from asteroid Ryugu indicate that it once had flowing water in far greater volumes...
Iridescent mammals are much more common than we th...
It has long been claimed that only one mammal – the golden mole – has fur that shimmers with rainbow...
‘Great Migration’ involves far fewer wildebeest th...
An estimate that as many as 1.3 million wildebeest move across the Serengeti Mara landscape each yea...
How cosmic events may have influenced hominin evol...
Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neand...
