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Amazon soil may store billions more tonnes of carb...
Nutrient-rich "dark earth" soil may store an amount of carbon nearly equivalent to annual CO2 emissi...
Strange planets could be forming inside dying star...
A planet orbiting extremely close to a white dwarf may have formed inside its star – this could be t...
Five of the most important International Space Sta...
From artificial retinas to ageing mice, here are five of the most promising results from research pe...
Hobbit hominins from Indonesia may have had even s...
An arm bone from an ancient human that lived 700,000 years ago on the island of Flores is the smalle...
Inside NASA’s ambitious plan to bring the ISS cras...
The International Space Station will burn up and splash down into the Pacific sometime around 2030. ...
Could we take the entire solar system on a voyage ...
To transport our planet across the universe, we would need to bring the whole solar system to sustai...
Rising methane emissions from wetlands may undermi...
Countries are starting to take steps to cut human sources of methane emissions, but climate change i...
Fossils show Greenland was once ice-free – and cou...
Ancient plants, seeds and insects preserved beneath Greenland’s ice sheet reveal that it once melted...
Keto diet helps with weight loss but also raises c...
A low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet is linked to greater fat loss than a low-sugar diet, but also high...
How clues in honey can help fight our biggest biod...
There are secrets aplenty in a pot of honey – from information about bees' "micro-bee-ota" to DNA fr...
Robo-tuna reveals how foldable fins help the speed...
A robot mimics the clever fin-folding mechanism used by tuna fish, which increased the bot's turning...
Banana-shaped galaxies are helping unpeel the myst...
Astronomers have been spotting strange banana-shaped galaxies and the evidence seems to indicate tha...
Streetlights may make tree leaves tough and hard f...
Trees in Beijing lit by streetlights at night seem to have tougher leaves and less damage from insec...
Are horses in equestrian sports being harmed by be...
Horses experience hyperflexion when their necks bend far towards their chests – forcing this positio...
Bacteria originally found in faeces help chronic w...
The bacterium Alcaligenes faecalis was first discovered in faeces – but it turns out to have healing...
Charles Darwin’s frogs turn mating upside down
Turning around and backing up out of pools found in tree hollows may help mating Charles Darwin’s fr...
Rising land under Antarctica could slow sea level ...
Antarctica’s melting ice sheet is relieving pressure on the land beneath, allowing it to push upward...
Black holes may inherit their magnetic fields from...
Short-lived neutron stars may explain both the extreme magnetic fields of black holes and gamma ray ...
