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US reports first human death related to bird flu
A person in Louisiana who became severely ill with a bird flu virus known as H5N1 in December has pa...
Wastewater treatment plants funnel PFAS into drink...
Wastewater treatment plants in the US may discharge enough “forever chemicals” to raise concentratio...
Lead pollution across the Roman Empire would have ...
Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by p...
AI uses throat vibrations to work out what someone...
Throat vibrations made by people who find it difficult to speak, such as after a stroke, can be anal...
The problems with Dry January – and what you could...
Many people decide to give up alcohol during January. But is this actually helpful in the long-term ...
Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a bri...
Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before...
Secrets of velvet ant's venom explain what makes i...
A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molec...
How a quantum innovation may quash the idea of the...
The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics invokes alternative realities to keep everything...
5 graphs that show how the world suddenly changed ...
From carbon emissions to the share prize of videoconferencing firm Zoom, these graphs tell the story...
The best new science fiction books of January 2025...
From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a fl...
Permafrost thaw beneath Arctic lakes poses surpris...
Deep sediments under Arctic lakes could release large amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, adding ...
Electric fields could mine rare earth metals with ...
Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destructive rare earth mini...
Global treaty is failing to curb ultra-potent gree...
Countries have pledged to phase out HFC-23, a powerful greenhouse gas, but atmospheric data shows th...
Climate change may have killed ancient 'hobbit' ho...
Homo floresiensis, a metre-tall ancient hominin, lived on the South Pacific island of Flores and hun...
US teens are using less of every substance – excep...
Teenagers in the US roughly doubled their use of nicotine pouches in 2024, despite turning away from...
Glowing biological quantum sensor could track how ...
A quantum sensor based on a protein from bioluminescent jellyfish can be made by the body itself and...
Crystal-based cooling could make fridges more sust...
A new type of crystal that absorbs heat when released from extreme pressure could lead to climate-fr...
Delicate robot hands know just how hard to squeeze...
A robotic hand uses fingertip sensors and AI to determine how firmly to grip before closing in on an...
