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Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishin...
Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing environmental and economi...
A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones fr...
Radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have revealed that a complete skeleton found in a 2nd-century ce...
Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibr...
An off-the-shelf millimetre wave sensor can pick out the tiny vibrations made by a smartphone's spea...
Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete ...
The infinite monkey theorem states that illiterate primates could write great literature with enough...
Simple fix could make the census more accurate but...
The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep personal information priva...
Simple fix could make US census more accurate but ...
The US Census Bureau processes data before publishing it in order to keep personal information priva...
Michelangelo's 'The Flood' seems to depict a woman...
The Renaissance artist Michelangelo had carried out human dissections, which may have led him to inc...
Is personalised nutrition better than one-size-fit...
Our metabolism's response to food is highly idiosyncratic and there are hints that tailoring our die...
AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica...
Scientists used AI to transform tourist photos into a 3D digital map of Antarctic penguin colonies –...
How to cut through the latest nutritional fads
From the benefits of fermented foods to diets that promise a better hormone balance, there is a conf...
The surprisingly simple supernutrient with far-rea...
Most ingredients touted as the key to better health fail to live up to the hype but fibre bucks this...
Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back ...
A fossil of a tadpole from Argentina is 161 million years old - and isn't that different from some m...
Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the...
A massive undertaking to map cancer tumours is providing new insights into how the disease forms, ev...
Are fermented foods like kimchi really that good f...
The health benefits of fermented food and drink have long been touted, but firm evidence in favour o...
Can we really balance our hormones by eating certa...
Diets that claim to control excess oestrogen or stress hormones are all the rage on Instagram and Ti...
Quantum batteries could discharge more power than ...
Simulations suggest that when a quantum battery shares a quantum state with the device it is powerin...
The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate t...
In some recent years, the Amazon biome released more carbon than it absorbed, and further degradatio...
Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get ...
Asteroids that regularly fly between Earth, Venus and Mars could provide radiation shielding for hum...
