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Chimps do better at difficult tasks when they have...
An analysis of thousands of cognitive tests carried out by chimpanzees finds that the number of spec...
Watch elephants use a hose to shower themselves – ...
Asian elephants at Berlin Zoo show impressive skill when using a hose as a tool, and even appear to ...
Quantum Rubik's cube has infinite patterns but is ...
Allowing for moves that create quantum superpositions makes a quantum version of a Rubik’s cube incr...
Why does our universe have something instead of no...
In order to figure out how something came from nothing, we first need to explore the different types...
We are a long way from pregnancy being safe on Mar...
Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren't exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet...
Why hairy animals shake themselves dry
The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to ha...
Slick trick separates oil and water with 99.9 per ...
Oil and water can be separated efficiently by pumping the mixture through thin channels between two ...
Bird flu antibodies found in dairy workers in Mich...
Blood tests have shown that about 7 per cent of workers on dairy farms that had H5N1 outbreaks had a...
Marmots could have the solution to a long-running ...
When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can ma...
The real reason VAR infuriates football fans and h...
The controversies surrounding football’s video assistant referee (VAR) system highlight our troubled...
Carbon emissions from private jets have exploded i...
The climate impact of flights taken by the super-rich rose sharply from 2019 to 2023, fuelling calls...
Chinese rover finds further evidence for an ancien...
Data collected by the Zhurong rover and orbiting satellites suggests the existence of an ancient sho...
DNA analysis rewrites the stories of people buried...
Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts ...
Ancient Egyptians shaped sheep's horns – and we do...
The earliest evidence of livestock with modified horns has been discovered in ancient Egypt – sheep ...
Knots made in a weird quantum fluid can last forev...
Shapes created by vortices in water often fall apart, but an odd quantum fluid made from ultracold a...
What preparing for an asteroid strike teaches us a...
Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change ...
More people are living with pain today than before...
Chronic pain has increased among adults in the US since 2019, which could be due to a rise in sedent...
If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could y...
In this choose-your-own-adventure game, it's up to you to protect the planet. From nuclear strikes t...
