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When did people start building houses with corners...
Around the world, the earliest buildings are typically round while later ones are rectangular – but ...
Big animals have higher cancer risk – but also evo...
A comparison of 263 species supports the idea that large animals have higher rates of cancer than sm...
Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,...
Preserved wooden spears from hundreds of thousands of years ago seem to have been suitable for throw...
Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining acti...
The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisit...
Inside the new therapies promising to finally beat...
Type-1 diabetes, IBD, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, coeliac disease and lupus are all ca...
Intuitive Machine's lunar lander Athena set to bla...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to launch a number of missions, including a private lunar lander, ...
22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of tr...
Tracks and footprints found in New Mexico are by far the earliest evidence of people using primitive...
Huge thunderstorm on Jupiter captured in best deta...
NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped in for a close look at a massive thunderstorm on Jupiter, revealing t...
Dogs seem to have a strong preference for yellow t...
When offered a choice of bowls, free-ranging dogs in India tend to approach a yellow one much more t...
Hair conditioner made from wood is black and smell...
Hair conditioner made using lignin, a polymer found in wood and bark, works just as well as a commer...
How one farm is testing multiple carbon-capture tr...
Rock dust, compost and biochar can all help capture carbon dioxide and boost crop yields when spread...
US stops sharing flu data with WHO amidst one of i...
The US withdrawal from the World Health Organization formally takes one year, but the country has al...
The bold plan to bring back Tasmanian devils acros...
Tasmanian devils are already being released inside predator-proof sanctuaries in New South Wales, an...
Time can move both forwards and backwards at the q...
Physicists may be using mathematical assumptions in many situations that forbid time from moving bac...
Mini-brains have been fused to resemble that of a ...
By fusing different human organoids, researchers have created “mini-brains” containing most of the c...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 will now almost certainly miss E...
New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, l...
AI can decode digital data stored in DNA in minute...
A new AI-based method can accurately recover digital data from DNA strands nearly 90 times faster th...
NOAA scientists refuse to link warming weather to ...
In a monthly reporting call on global climate, researchers from the US government’s climate and weat...
