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Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for...
Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel...
A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the...
If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers ...
US government releases huge batch of UFO files
The US Department of Defense has released hundreds of documents and photographs related to UFOs, som...
Doubling their genomes may have helped plants surv...
Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extr...
Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone ...
A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kil...
There’s a been a sudden increase in the rate of se...
Satellite measurements show that in the early 2010s sea level rise suddenly accelerated to a rate of...
Slow breathing can calm the mind without any need ...
How important is thinking about your breath for calming yourself down? We now know that slow breathi...
Neanderthal 'kneeprint' found next to mysterious s...
An impression made in clay around 175,000 years ago could be a kneeprint left by one of the builders...
The mathematician who doesn’t exist
A secret society of French mathematicians has been revolutionising the field of mathematics under a ...
Hantavirus outbreak will not cause a covid-style p...
The World Health Organization sought to quell worldwide fears over the hantavirus outbreak on the cr...
PCOS postpones perimenopause and allows pregnancie...
Only 3 per cent of those with polycystic ovary syndrome reach perimenopause by the age of 46, which ...
Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to...
A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are d...
The best new popular science books of May 2026
A guide to walking, a look at the world’s Google searches and a deep dive into the secrets of our DN...
Pressure from individual particles measured for th...
A device made using a tiny bead floating in a beam of light can measure extremely small pressures an...
Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we kn...
Research into dating has until now almost exclusively focused on younger people, but we’re finally b...
Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools o...
An analysis of 150 artefacts from a site in Wales shows that the ancient practice of making tools ou...
Red-light therapy does have health benefits but no...
Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pai...
Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point i...
At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash wide...
