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‘Sound laser’ is the most powerful ever made
A new device uses a reflective cavity, a tiny bead and an electrode to create a laser beam of sound ...
What do home faecal test kits really reveal about ...
Many firms sell direct-to-consumer faecal testing kits, but an investigation has revealed that scien...
Should everyone start eating snakes to save the pl...
Pythons convert food into meat more efficiently than other livestock, and they can be fed on waste m...
Chimp mothers play with their youngsters even when...
Ten years’ worth of observations of a wild chimpanzee community show that most adults stop playing w...
Starship launch: Third flight reaches space but is...
The world’s most powerful rocket, Starship, launched from Texas and reached an altitude of more than...
Starship launch success: SpaceX's third flight rea...
The world’s most powerful rocket launched from Texas and reached an altitude of more than 230 kilome...
Can a pill really reverse ageing in dogs? Don't ge...
A trial suggests that giving older dogs a supplement makes them cognitively sharper, but some scient...
Starship launch 3: What time is the SpaceX flight ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up for the third launch of its massive Starship rocket, following two ...
A single meteorite smashed into Mars and created 2...
The debris from the formation of a relatively small crater on Mars created billions of additional cr...
Did the people of Easter Island independently inve...
Wooden tablets containing a language of glyphs called Rongorongo may be evidence that the people of ...
Anti-inflammatory nasal spray helps treat multiple...
A nasal spray containing an anti-inflammatory molecule reduces the symptoms associated with multiple...
One in eight ski resorts worldwide could have no s...
All major skiing regions worldwide are predicted to see a severe drop in snow days by the end of the...
Watch an AI-powered robot dog crawl around an obst...
A four-legged robot can handle real-world obstacles that require scrambling up and down or leaping s...
Methane leaks from US oil and gas are triple gover...
The largest ever dataset of its kind suggests methane is leaking from US oil and gas fields at a muc...
Alzheimer’s may be caused by a build-up of fat in ...
Fat droplets accumulating in brain immune cells could be behind the biggest genetic risk factor for ...
Extreme heat could trigger the worst global financ...
Thanks to globalisation, severe heatwaves in one part of the world can cause financial losses in ano...
Five climate megaprojects that might just save the...
From solar power stations in space to stabilising melting glaciers, some researchers are proposing e...
US legislators vote to ban TikTok unless it severs...
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that will require TikTok’s parent company, ByteDan...
