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The secret to guessing more accurately with maths
What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have...
Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and w...
Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Physicist Vladimir Brlja...
Möbius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and...
A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you...
Just one dose of psilocybin relieves symptoms of O...
Taking psilocybin – the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms – eased symptoms of obsessive compu...
Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years fou...
Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thoug...
Alzheimer’s may start with inflammation in the ski...
The Alzheimer’s field is being turned on its head as mounting evidence points to the disease beginni...
The secret of how cats twist in mid-air to land on...
An exceptionally flexible region of the spine enables falling cats to twist the front and back halve...
Sea levels around the world are much higher than w...
Most coastal risk assessments have underestimated current sea levels, meaning tens of millions of pe...
Top predators still prowled the seas after the big...
The end-Permian extinction 252 million years ago wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species, but m...
Claude AI: Why are there so many internet outages?...
AI chatbot Claude going down is just one example of a recent IT outage. One of the main vulnerabilit...
How worried should you be about microplastics?
Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many o...
Phantom codes could help quantum computers avoid e...
A method for making quantum computers less error-prone could let them run complex programs such as s...
Selfish Y chromosome may explain why some families...
A family in Utah with a disproportionate number of boys has been traced back over hundreds of years,...
The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwi...
From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramat...
Your microbiome may determine your risk of a sever...
The microbes that live in our mouth and gut may influence whether an allergic reaction to peanuts is...
Why the US is using a cheap Iranian drone against ...
The US and Iran are trading blows in the Gulf with a simple drone that costs as little as $50,000 to...
Can Michael Pollan crack the problem of consciousn...
The science writer delves into the vast subject of consciousness in his new book A World Appears – a...
Would aliens do physics, or is science a human inv...
Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – m...
