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Disappearing megafauna may have prompted a stone t...
Massive herbivores became scarce in the Middle East about 200,000 years ago, and this coincided with...
The invisibility cloak inventor now has better tri...
John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same princ...
Particles seen emerging from empty space for first...
By tracing the origins of an unusual, short-lived particle, researchers have gathered some of the st...
Why The Double Helix is such an extraordinary but ...
James Watson’s The Double Helix is probably one of the greatest science books of all time – but Mich...
How a century-long argument over light’s true natu...
Two of the forefathers of quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, had a famous argument over...
The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby...
The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission have captured extraordinary views of the moon, including close...
I don’t see images in my head. Can training give m...
Training programmes for people with aphantasia – the inability to create mental images – are challen...
Migraines could be treated by ramping up the brain...
Amplifying the brain's waste disposal system seems to clear a substance that drives migraines, relie...
Are manure digesters a real solution to dairy farm...
Anaerobic digesters converting manure to biogas reduce methane emissions from livestock, but incenti...
The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the mo...
Four NASA astronauts have now travelled further from Earth than any humans before them, as they flew...
Iodised salt has become uncool but many of us need...
Iodine deficiency is on the rise among people in the UK, the US and Australia. A century ago this le...
We're solving the fundamental mystery of how reali...
For decades, scientists have tried and failed to explain how the force that binds the heart of atoms...
Novel approach to clearing brain waste shows promi...
Boosting the brain's waste-disposal system is increasingly showing promise for Alzheimer's disease, ...
We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion...
An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind ...
How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?
Fears that artificial intelligence could rise up to wipe out humanity are understandable given our s...
Multipurpose anti-viral pill may treat colds, noro...
AI predicted that a forgotten breast cancer drug could be repurposed to treat many respiratory and g...
How a DIY worm farm can compost food scraps, paper...
For those who want a little help composting, take a cue from James Woodford’s experience raising wor...
Surprise fossil discoveries push back the evolutio...
A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to re...
