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When does a bone become a fossil?
As organic material in a bone gets replaced by minerals over time, it becomes a fossil. But that can...
Poison frogs tap-dance to rouse prey and make them...
Different species of poison frogs tap their toes when feeding to create vibrations that cause flies ...
School uniforms may prevent children from getting ...
Children who live in countries where school uniforms are the norm appear to be less active than thos...
Injections of drug-filled nanoparticles may reliev...
A drug called pazopanib is known to provide brief relief from arthritis pain – encapsulating it in n...
Dogs and horses buried with Iron Age people may ha...
A 2200-year-old burial ground in northern Italy includes people interred with dogs and horses, perha...
How your age, gender and nationality alter how you...
An emoji that represents happiness to one person may signify a different emotion to another, with th...
Blasting sluggish sperm with ultrasound waves gets...
Sperm that were immobile became active after just 20 seconds of ultrasound exposure in a lab experim...
Half of Amazon may be pushed to climate tipping po...
Satellite data suggests 47 per cent of the Amazon will experience at least one environmental stresso...
Rice containing beef cells could make a sustainabl...
Scientists have grown cow muscle cells inside grains of rice to create a new food product that could...
The existence of a new kind of magnetism has been ...
Altermagnets, theorised to exist but never before seen, have been measured for the first time and th...
The uncomfortable truth about cannibalism’s role i...
Fossil evidence shows that humans have a very long history of eating each other. Now, archaeologists...
Bacteria found in a mine turn CO2 to rock under ex...
Microbes that rapidly convert CO2 to rock could lock away the greenhouse gas in deep underground sto...
Female scorpions get stung during sex – and they s...
During courtship rituals, female scorpions appear to willingly let males sting them, which may be a ...
Great apes like teasing each other - which may be ...
Chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and gorillas frequently toy with their peers by poking, tickling or...
How to take control of your dreams to boost learni...
Dream engineers are developing technologies that can help you sleep more soundly and use your nightt...
Satellite beamed power from space to Earth for the...
If we are ever going to have a solar power station in space, we will need to be able to transmit pow...
Small dogs are more likely to have an extra row of...
Some pet dogs retain their baby teeth, creating two rows that resemble the mouth of a shark. A new a...
