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We've spotted the strongest microwave laser in the...
Colliding galaxies can create a beam of focused microwave radiation known as a maser, and astronomer...
Fresh understanding of the causes of migraine reve...
New insights into the causes of migraine are prompting a fresh look at a drug target that was sideli...
Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien ci...
Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location i...
Ultra-processed foods could be making you age fast...
We’ve been missing an important contributor to ageing, says columnist Graham Lawton. Ultra-processed...
New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail...
Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs...
Atmospheric pollution caused by space junk could b...
After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifte...
Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark m...
An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supe...
Microbe with the smallest genome yet pushes the bo...
Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions ...
More dog breeds found to have high risk of breathi...
An assessment of nearly 900 dogs has identified 12 breeds prone to brachycephalic obstructive airway...
Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments ...
Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting agains...
Why some people cannot move on from the death of a...
Prolonged grief disorder affects around 1 in 20 people, and we're starting to understand the neurosc...
Data centres could store information in glass for ...
Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising t...
Postpartum depression in dads is common – we can n...
Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At la...
How baby microbiomes in the West differ from those...
Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world,...
Ultramarathons could be bad for your blood
Running 170 kilometres over mountainous terrain caused people's red blood cells to accumulate more a...
Did a cloud-seeding start-up really increase snowf...
A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in th...
Scientists want to put a super laser on the moon
An ultrastable laser could enable extremely precise timing and navigation on the moon, and the cold,...
The untold story of our remarkable hands and how t...
The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. ...
