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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is about to make its...
Two astronauts are about to set off for the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner ca...
Ball-balancing robot could assist wheelchair users...
A robot that moves around by balancing on a ball could prove a better assistant for wheelchair users...
How Schrödinger's cat could make quantum computers...
A quantum bit inspired by Schrödinger’s cat can resist making errors for an unprecedentedly long tim...
Black holes scramble information – but may not be ...
Information contained within quantum objects gets scrambled when they interact. Physicists have now ...
Zebras bob their heads at each other to signal coo...
Head-bobbing seems to be a way for zebras to invite others to groom, graze or move together, suggest...
Swallowable sensor unfurls in stomach to monitor g...
A ribbon of electrodes could nestle in the gut to help diagnose gastrointestinal diseases linked to ...
Stink bugs grow a fungal garden on their legs to f...
A surprise discovery has revealed that female stink bugs have a small indent on their hind legs that...
Autoimmune conditions linked to reactivated X chro...
The inactivation of one copy of the X chromosome in female mammals may start to fail as they get old...
Red squirrels were hosts for leprosy in medieval E...
DNA analysis of remains found at medieval sites has identified closely related strains of leprosy-ca...
Protocells on early Earth may have been formed by ...
Simulations of the crust of early Earth show that cycles of pressure caused by geysers or tidal forc...
Flies undertake epic migrations that may be vital ...
Migrating flies can carry pollen hundreds or thousands of kilometres, and this could help plants ada...
China is sending its Chang’e 6 spacecraft to the f...
If all goes well, the Chang’e 6 probe will be the first ever to land on the far side of the moon to ...
Mysterious space signals may come from a dead star...
Strange bursts of radio waves called FRBs have long been mysterious, and one of the most famous sour...
Seven surprising things you may not know about roo...
Plants are often celebrated for the parts that are easy to see – flower, leaves, fruit – but scienti...
Indoor climbing wall users may be breathing in tox...
The air and dust in climbing centres contain high levels of rubber particles from the soles of climb...
Rising temperatures are cooking bumblebee nests an...
Climate change could be fueling bumblebee population loss by making hives too hot to handle
Orangutan is first non-human seen treating wounds ...
A male Sumatran orangutan chewed the leaves of a plant used in Indonesian traditional medicine and p...
MMR vaccines may not always give lifelong immunity...
Levels of protection measles provided by the MMR jab fall by a small amount every year, according to...
