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Weather forecasts could warn about events made wor...
Thanks to advances in weather simulation, forecasts of heatwaves and hurricanes could soon come with...
Blood test could diagnose ALS with up to 97 per ce...
ALS, the most common form of motor neuron disease, can take a long time to diagnose, but a blood tes...
Ig Nobel prizes 2024: The unexpected science that ...
From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners o...
The deepfakes of Trump and Biden that you are most...
Experiments show that viewers can usually identify video deepfakes of famous politicians – but fake ...
Mega El Niños may have played a part in the Permia...
Extreme weather events lasting more than a decade could have killed off forests 250 million years ag...
Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook E...
Seismologists were mystified by a strange signal that persisted for nine days in 2023 – now its sour...
Another extreme low for Antarctic sea ice signals ...
An area of missing Antarctic sea ice twice the size of Texas adds to concerns that the ice has seen ...
SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew complete 'stand-up' civil...
A groundbreaking civilian spacewalk saw two astronauts partially exit a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule w...
Visible aurora spotted for the first time on Mars ...
If you were standing on Mars as it was hit by a solar flare, you might be able to see an aurora just...
One dose of a smallpox vaccine still gives good pr...
A single dose of a smallpox vaccine seems to lower the risk of catching mpox by around 60 per cent, ...
Why everyone needs to stop joking that they're "a ...
Far from being a behavioural quirk, obsessive-compulsive disorder is a debilitating condition with c...
Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cu...
Analysis of DNA from a Neanderthal fossil found in a French cave indicates that it belonged to a gro...
Ancient people of Easter Island made return trips ...
DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1...
Bubbles of gas 75 times larger than our sun spotte...
Gas bubbles on the surface of a star have been observed for the first time in detail outside our sol...
A fresh understanding of OCD is opening routes to ...
We're finally pinning down the mechanisms that drive obsessive-compulsive disorder, revealing a comp...
Huge new volcano has burst through the surface of ...
In between two spacecraft visiting Jupiter’s moon Io, a volcano spreading material over hundreds of ...
Fish size themselves up in a mirror to decide if t...
Cleaner wrasse use their reflection to build a mental image of their body size, which they use to co...
When did humans leave the trees for the savannah –...
Ancient humans are said to have evolved to leave the trees, where our primate ancestors lived, in fa...
