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How worried should we be about a bird flu pandemic...
The first known death from a bird flu virus in the US has sparked fears about another pandemic, yet ...
La Niña is finally here but it won't stay for long...
After months of delay, the cool La Niña climate pattern has emerged in the eastern tropical Pacific ...
Your ears and nose are made from tissue that looks...
It turns out that the cartilage inside your ears and nose is different from that found elsewhere in ...
Why sabre-toothed animals evolved again and again
Sabre teeth can be ideal for puncturing the flesh of prey, which may explain why they evolved in dif...
Keeping space tidy should become a global UN goal,...
The United Nations has 17 sustainable development goals that all member states have signed up to in ...
Maths quirk explains why crosswords are so hard – ...
The process of solving a crossword puzzle is mathematically similar to well-studied physical systems...
Parents stop finding diapers disgusting once babie...
The extent to which parents feel disgust appears to come and go, which could be important for their ...
BepiColombo snaps Mercury's dark craters and volca...
The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captur...
Quantum computers get automatic error correction f...
A tiny quantum “refrigerator” can ensure that a quantum computer’s calculations start off error-free...
California wildfires fuelled by months of unusual ...
Fast-moving wildfires are burning long after the regular fire season is over due to an unlikely sequ...
SpaceX: Starship to launch fake satellites on seve...
SpaceX’s most ambitious Starship flight yet will see reused hardware, the deployment of 10 fake sate...
A healthy dose of AI can improve medical care and ...
Done right, with real-world evidence to back up the claims and persuade doctors to adopt it, artific...
Will genome editing transform our children's healt...
A team of scientists claims that the risk of common conditions like heart disease could be slashed b...
Physicists discover that 'impossible' particles co...
Every fundamental particle in the universe fits into one of two groups called fermions and bosons, b...
Punk and Emo fossils rock our ideas of how ancient...
Two species of marine molluscs dating back about 430 million years have been named Punk and Emo for ...
Sleeping pills disrupt how the brain clears waste
A common sleep medication prevents mice from effectively clearing away waste and toxins from their b...
We thought we knew emperor penguins – robots are p...
For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellit...
New Glenn launch: Blue Origin's reusable rocket se...
Jeff Bezos’s space company is about to launch New Glenn, a reusable rocket intended to rival SpaceX’...
