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2024 is set to be the first year that breaches the...
This year’s average global temperature is almost certain to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial times ...
Vampire bats run on a treadmill to reveal their st...
Experiments where vampire bats were made to run on a treadmill have revealed how they extract energy...
Distant dwarf planet Makemake might have a surpris...
A small world in the outer solar system appears to have volcanic activity possibly spurred by liquid...
Cancer deaths expected to nearly double worldwide ...
Experts predict that the number of cancer cases around the world will skyrocket, resulting in millio...
Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made fr...
Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. ...
Dazzling images illuminate research on cardiovascu...
The British Heart Foundation’s Reflections of Research competition showcases beautiful images captur...
3D printing with light and sound could let us copy...
One day, doctors might be able to 3D print copies of your organs in order to test a variety of drugs...
Natural fibres in wet wipes may actually be worse ...
Fibres in wet wipes and clothes often make their way into soil - and natural versions could be more ...
Ancient Mesopotamian clay seals offer clues to the...
Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet cla...
Spraying rice with sunscreen particles during heat...
Zinc nanoparticles, a common sunscreen ingredient, can make plants more resilient to climate change ...
Heat can flow backwards in a gas so thin its parti...
A surprising reversal of our usual understanding of the second law of thermodynamics shows that it m...
The COP16 biodiversity summit was a big flop for p...
Although the COP16 summit in Colombia ended with some important agreements, countries still aren’t m...
The complete guide to cooking oils and how they af...
From seed oils to olive oil, we now have an overwhelming choice of what to cook with. Here’s how the...
COP29: Clashes over cash are set to dominate the c...
The focus is on finance at the UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, this month, but countries are ...
Bird flu was found in a US pig – does that raise t...
A bird flu virus that has been circulating in dairy cattle for months has now been found in a pig in...
We've seen particles that are massless only when m...
Inside a hunk of a material called a semimetal, scientists have uncovered signatures of bizarre part...
Viruses may help store vast amounts of carbon in s...
Soil is full of an uncountable number of viruses, and scientists are only beginning to understand ju...
There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anyt...
Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits o...
