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Some bamboo toilet paper contains only tiny amount...
Toilet paper made from bamboo is supposed to be more eco-friendly than traditional paper made from v...
Not getting enough sleep may make you feel years o...
Insufficient sleep seems to result in people feeling older than they are, with a higher "subjective ...
Unexploded bombs from the second world war are get...
An explosive found inside many bombs and shells used during the first and second world wars is becom...
Bird flu detected in US dairy cows – here’s what y...
The US Department of Agriculture has detected bird flu in dairy cows from Texas and Kansas – the fir...
How to make an eclipse viewer
Some basic equipment can help you safely enjoy the eclipse on 8 April – here's how to easily make wh...
Flavour-predicting AI can tell brewers how to make...
An AI model trained on chemical and perceptual data on 250 Belgian beers can predict the flavour pro...
The physicist searching for quantum gravity in gra...
Claudia de Rham thinks that gravitons, hypothetical particles thought to carry gravity, have mass. I...
AI forecaster can predict the future better than h...
An AI forecaster based on the language model GPT-4 can predict the outcome of future events more acc...
Heat pumps: How to speed up the switch to low-carb...
The rollout of heat pumps and other green heating technologies is going far too slowly in the UK – h...
Paper planes made by a robot fly better than ones ...
A robot that can design, build and test objects made from folded paper can make paper planes that fl...
Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dino...
A unique site in Brazil features rock carvings closely associated with dinosaur tracks, suggesting p...
Huge crater in India hints at major meteorite impa...
The Luna structure, a 1.8-kilometre-wide depression in north-west India, may have been caused by the...
Your nationality may influence how much you talk w...
When recounting an episode of the children's TV show Pingu, people from Italy made an average of 22 ...
Wildfire smoke may be deadliest effect of climate ...
Smoke from wildfires made worse by climate change is set to cause thousands of additional deaths eac...
The unexpected reasons why human childhood is extr...
Why childhood is so protracted has long been mysterious, now a spate of archaeological discoveries s...
Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many diff...
The author of In Ascension, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, on why he wrote his nov...
Dust clouds from the Sahara are reaching Europe mo...
Changes in wind patterns and desertification may be increasing the amount of dust from the Sahara de...
Birds make an 'after you' gesture to prompt their ...
Japanese tits sometimes flutter their wings in an apparent gesture of encouraging their mate to ente...
