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See inside an endangered California condor egg jus...
The hatching of the 250th California condor chick at the San Diego Zoo marks a notable milestone for...
‘Peaceful’ male bonobos may actually be more aggre...
Bonobos have long been regarded as the peaceful ape, in sharp contrast with violent chimpanzees, but...
Arctic permafrost is now a net source of major gre...
An Arctic-wide survey has found that the permafrost region is emitting more carbon into the atmosphe...
Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their v...
After a short conversation with an artificial intelligence, people’s belief in a conspiracy theory d...
Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human fami...
Five years ago, a fossil found in the Philippines was determined to be from a new species of hominin...
Water purifier is powered by static electricity fr...
A 10-minute walk can build up enough static electricity to power a battery-free water purifier, whic...
Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’
Not long after the last world war, the historian William L. Shirer had this to say about the next wo...
Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by An...
In this terrifying extract from Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, the author lays out what w...
Embryos pause development when nutrients are low —...
Embryos seem to have a sensor that picks up when nutrients are scarce, prompting them to pause their...
A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular struct...
A once-independent bacterium has evolved into an organelle that provides nitrogen to algal cells – a...
AI can spot parasites in stool samples to help dia...
About 1.5 billion people worldwide carry a risk of conditions including malnutrition because of para...
Quantum 'supersolid' matter stirred using magnets
We can’t stir ordinary solids, but one research team now claims to have stirred an extraordinary qua...
How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the ...
The physicist Peter Higgs quietly revolutionised quantum field theory, then lived long enough to see...
Testing drugs on mini-cancers in the lab may revea...
A small early-stage trial of the approach, which involves testing dozens of drug combinations on tho...
Air pollution can make insects mate with the wrong...
Ground-level ozone, a product of pollution from cars, degrades insect pheromones, and this can resul...
Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefa...
We don’t know what alien life might look like, but if other civilisations can colonise multiple worl...
Watch mini humanoid robots showing off their footb...
These soccer-playing robots can respond faster than ones trained in a standard way because they impr...
Some of our favourite songs make us sad, which may...
Our favourite sad songs seem to become less enjoyable when we try to take the emotion out of them
