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Greener way to dye denim could cut the environment...
The jeans industry uses harmful chemicals to dye denim with indigo, but an alternative process can a...
Dishabituation: How to trick your brain to find mo...
Learning a psychological trick to overcome your brain's tendency to stop noticing things could help ...
Is battery swapping a better way to recharge elect...
With queues at public charging points getting longer, some companies are opening power swap stations...
Covid-19 vaccines seem to cut the risk of heart at...
Many covid-19 vaccines occasionally cause side effects such as blood clots or heart inflammation, bu...
Jackals may urinate on their favourite fruit to de...
Although they are carnivores, black-backed jackals are partial to the melon-like fruits of the !nara...
Earthquakes hastened sea rise in Pacific islands b...
Projections of flood risk due to sea-level rise on the Samoan islands underestimate the rate at whic...
Bizarre fish can extend its mouth to make a kind o...
The hingemouth, an African freshwater fish, can stick out a proboscis for feeding or breathing thank...
Two lunar landers have fallen over – but they’re s...
The SLIM lander and the Odysseus lander both set down on the lunar surface on their sides, but they ...
We finally know why live music makes us so emotion...
Hearing live music tugs at our heartstrings more than a recording, probably because it increases act...
How one of the smallest fish makes a sound as loud...
The drumming sound of the 12-millimetre-long fish Danionella cerebrum can hit 140 decibels – now sci...
Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyru...
Ancient and fragile papyrus samples are at risk of being damaged by fungi, but a wasabi-based treatm...
Weird white dwarf star has a metal scar after eati...
Astronomers have spotted a white dwarf star with a patch of metal near one of its magnetic poles, wh...
Hard-to-digest starch supplements may help people ...
A small trial has strengthened the idea that foods containing the special form of starch could lead ...
Where are all the exomoons? The hunt for worlds or...
Moons circling exoplanets would be some of the most promising places to look for life outside our so...
Mathematicians discover 'soft cell' shapes behind ...
The mathematical study of how repeating tiles fit together usually involves pointed shapes like tria...
Resurrecting loved ones as AI 'ghosts' could harm ...
It may soon be possible to recreate the persona of someone who has died by training an artificial in...
Huge set of galaxies is set to form largest cluste...
Astronomers have spotted a gargantuan protocluster – the primordial beginnings of a galaxy cluster –...
Why science relies too much on mathematics
Mathematics is at the heart of modern science but we shouldn’t forget other ways to reason, says aut...
