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Grand canyons formed on moon in minutes after colo...
Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by c...
The shocking discovery that our gut microbiome dri...
A new understanding of our relationship with our "friendly" gut microbes shows they actually have a ...
Spiders can run just as fast after two of their le...
When spiders self-amputate two of their legs, they quickly adjust their running gait so they can ret...
Laughing gas could be picked up by a breathalyser
Many countries have made it illegal to possess nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, and research now show...
The 100-year-old symmetry theorem that is still ch...
Emmy Noether was hailed as a mathematical genius in her own time. And her theorem on symmetry is sti...
Bonobos can tell when they know something you don'...
Recognising that someone lacks information you possess is key for effective communication and cooper...
January 2025 sets surprise record as hottest ever ...
Meteorologists expected global temperatures to start falling after record highs in 2023 and 2024 – i...
Rice variant slashes planet-warming methane emissi...
Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much le...
Omega-3 supplements seem to slow down biological a...
Taking a daily omega-3 supplement appears to slow down the rate of biological ageing by three months...
Why we must investigate Phobos, the solar system's...
Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could so...
Most detailed survey of particles around the sun r...
More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the b...
Salamanders fill their toes with blood before each...
Wandering salamanders pump their toes full of blood before lifting their feet, a trick that may help...
Rat populations in cities are booming as the plane...
Global warming is helping rats thrive in major cities around the world, with Washington DC seeing th...
The best new science fiction books of February 202...
From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butl...
Amazon river dolphins may send messages with aeria...
Male dolphins have been observed shooting jets of urine into the air and other dolphins seem to foll...
'Obsolete' muscle that wiggles ears actually activ...
A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actua...
Scratching an itch could help boost your immune de...
Mice that were free to scratch their itchy ears saw the number of immune cells go up and levels of i...
Supercharged hurricanes will cause more blackouts ...
Some US states may see the number of power cuts caused by hurricanes jump by 60 per cent by 2100 in ...
