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Why a mysterious group of ancient humans doesn’t h...
An extinct group of humans that were once widespread in Asia don’t have an official species name – p...
The real reason why we lost the ability to make vi...
The textbooks say our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C because we didn't need it, but th...
These ants are one of the most effective teams in ...
Typically, individuals work less effectively in bigger teams, but weaver ants buck this trend by inc...
How AI poisoning is fighting bots that hoover data...
The web is awash with bots that scrape data without permission. Now content creators are poisoning t...
Social media toxicity can't be fixed by changing t...
Experiments involving AI chatbots interacting on a simulated social media platform suggest efforts t...
Vanishing Y chromosomes seem to be driving heart d...
Men typically lose Y chromosomes from their cells as they get older, which could be affecting their ...
Trees may be getting more flammable because of cli...
Researchers are testing whether increasing UV radiation is altering chemistry of tree leaves, increa...
Microwaving rocks could help mining operations pul...
A carbon dioxide removal company in Canada is experimenting with ways to treat mining waste to captu...
Working past the age of retirement may improve you...
Having a full-time job in later life has been linked to improved emotional, financial and general li...
Psychedelic drug ibogaine may treat PTSD by slowin...
In people with traumatic brain injury, administering the psychedelic drug ibogaine seems to slow dow...
Lost researcher's remains found on Antarctic glaci...
Bone fragments found on King George Island have been identified as Dennis "Tink" Bell, a British met...
A new measure of health is revolutionising how we ...
Life expectancy has increased dramatically over the past century, but our years of good health appea...
Extreme heat is driving dramatic declines in tropi...
The numbers of many tropical birds are plummeting, and now it has been shown that heat extremes inte...
Mathematicians have worked out the optimal strateg...
The quickest way to win the board game Guess Who? involves asking sneaky questions that involve a lo...
Oddly viscous stars could be impersonating black h...
Calculations suggest stars that are very viscous could reflect gravitational waves and produce signa...
A planet the size of Saturn could orbit the neares...
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar s...
Two sneaky viruses may be messing with honeybee fl...
The deformed wing and sacbrood viruses were thought to cause asymptomatic infections in adult bees. ...
How superheavy chemistry could rearrange the perio...
In an unprecedentedly precise accelerator experiment, researchers directly observed how some of the ...
