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The world’s most elusive colour is worth billions ...
The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now ch...
Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just g...
The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,00...
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war...
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in...
Rapamycin can add years to your life, or none at a...
The drug rapamycin has been held up for its life-extending properties, but whether this treatment – ...
Cannibalism may explain why some orcas stay in fam...
Fins washing up in the North Pacific suggest that orcas from one subspecies are snacking on other or...
How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented th...
Ukraine has responded to a war it didn’t start by creating an industry it doesn’t want, but could th...
Landmark vitiligo cream targets immune cells that ...
A cream that directly disrupts the underlying causes of the skin patches seen in the condition vitil...
Loophole found that makes quantum cloning possible...
Duplicating the information held in quantum computers was thought to be impossible thanks to the no-...
The surprising vaccine side effects that can impro...
People often focus on the bad side effects of vaccines, but they can have some great side effects to...
Saturn’s rings may have formed after a huge collis...
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, may have been even more instrumental to the system’s evolution th...
Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form ...
Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europ...
Birdwatching may reshape the brain and build its b...
Expert birdwatchers have changes in their brain structure compared with novices, which probably help...
Brutal Iron Age massacre may have targeted women a...
An examination of bones has revealed one of the largest prehistoric mass killings known in Europe, w...
It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you fe...
How we feel about a night’s sleep can have a bigger impact on mood and grogginess than actual hours ...
Everyone's a queen: The ant species with no males ...
Temnothorax kinomurai, a parasitic ant species found in Japan, reproduces asexually and all of its y...
A horse's whinny is unlike any other sound in natu...
Horses use their larynx to make two sounds simultaneously, so they are effectively singing and whist...
Why our brains tune things out and how to overcome...
We often stop noticing things we’ve become too accustomed to, as a side effect of our brains protect...
Fish-based pet food may expose cats and dogs to fo...
A survey of 100 commercial foods for dogs and cats revealed that PFAS chemicals appear in numerous b...
