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Why supersonic, diamond-spewing volcanoes might be...
Strange volcanos called kimberlites bring diamonds up from Earth's depths. Scientists have always st...
Gene variants may protect against brain disease li...
Remote tribes in Papua New Guinea were ravaged in the 20th century by kuru, which was spread when pe...
'Red alert' after key global warming records were ...
2023 wasn't just the hottest year on record by far, it also saw record glacier loss, sea level rise,...
'Forever chemicals' have infiltrated food packagin...
Nearly 70 "forever chemicals", also known as PFAS, are commonly found in materials that come into co...
‘Running of the bulls’ festival crowds move like c...
Researchers have studied the movements of thousands of people waiting for the opening of the San Fer...
Nvidia's Blackwell AI 'superchip' is the most powe...
A computer chip featuring over 400 billion transistors can train artificial intelligence models fast...
Cannabis vaping liquids contain lead and other tox...
The heating elements in vapes can release toxic metals. Now an analysis of cannabis vaping liquids s...
Intermittent fasting linked to a higher risk of he...
Only eating within an 8-hour window is associated with a significantly higher risk of heart disease-...
Blood-clotting drug derived from pigs can now be m...
A common anti-clotting drug called heparin is made from pig intestines, which risks contaminations a...
Mammoth carcass was scavenged by ancient humans an...
A southern mammoth skeleton found in Spain bears cut marks from stone tools and bite marks from carn...
Nobel-winning biologist on the most promising ways...
Efforts to extend our lifespan continue and many look promising, but success will have unintended co...
Titan’s sand dunes may be made of smashed up small...
The sand dunes that splay across the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan may be made of the ground-up rem...
Mathematicians plan computer proof of Fermat's las...
Fermat's last theorem puzzled mathematicians for centuries until it was finally proven in 1993. Now,...
Gold flecks make super-transparent glass fully opa...
A glare-free window that is opaque from the outside but still offers a clear view from inside could ...
Miniature furniture 3D printed using ink made from...
Waste wood can be reconstituted into a form that can be 3D printed and used to produce furniture or ...
Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of S...
Saturn’s moon Titan may have hundreds of strange ridges called yardangs that could teach us how the ...
Single mathematical model governs primate brain sh...
An analysis of primate brains shows that the pattern of folds on the surface follows the same mathem...
Mental illness may accelerate ageing by damaging R...
People with mental illness have greater amounts of damaged RNA than those without a mental health co...
