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Aged human urine is a pungent pesticide as well as...
Urine that has sat in the sun for a while seems to fertilise crops while warding off pests, without ...
Monkeys use crafty techniques to get junk food fro...
At the Dakshineswar temple complex in India, Hanuman langurs beg for food by grabbing visitors’ legs...
US bridges are at risk of catastrophic ship collis...
After a container ship struck and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, res...
Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn't b...
Cave-dwelling orb spiders have adapted their webs so they act as tripwires for prey that crawl on th...
A revolutionary new understanding of autism in gir...
By studying the brains of autistic girls, we now know the condition presents differently in them tha...
Quantum eavesdropping could work even from inside ...
An eavesdropper hiding inside a black hole could still obtain information about quantum objects on i...
Unusually tiny hominin deepens mystery of our Para...
Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that survived alongside early humans for more than a million ye...
Dramatic cuts in China’s air pollution drove surge...
The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's...
Does aspirin have potential as an anti-cancer drug...
Taking aspirin was first linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer in 1988, but the research into ...
Are Trump's cuts to science the end of the endless...
Since the second world war, US economic prosperity and major technological developments have hinged ...
Measles is spreading across the US – here is what ...
The US has confirmed more than 480 measles cases across 19 states, the highest total since an outbre...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST o...
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which earlier thi...
The anus may have evolved from a hole originally u...
The long-standing question of how animals came to have an anus may have been solved by studies of wh...
Could a new kind of carbon budget ensure top emitt...
Some researchers propose that countries should start to rack up a carbon debt once they exceed their...
Distracted by your phone? Putting it out of reach ...
When researchers asked people to work on a computer with their phones 1.5 metres away, the amount of...
Little red dots seen by JWST might be a kind of bl...
Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they ...
Flourishing microalgae could offset emissions as t...
Photosynthesising microbes in soil may increase their activity as temperatures rise, offsetting some...
We've spotted auroras on Neptune for the first tim...
After 34 years of searching, astronomers have finally confirmed Neptune has auroras, thanks to data ...
