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Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yiel...
Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks...
Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain ...
We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, but ...
Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a w...
A serendipitous lab accident revealed that hibernating bumblebee queens can make it through days of ...
Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here...
Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhyt...
The man reinventing economics with chaos theory an...
Traditional economics makes ludicrous assumptions and poor predictions. Now an alternative approach ...
Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon sto...
Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5°C of warming assumes we can store vast amoun...
How to destroy a black hole
A black hole would be tough to destroy, but in the season two premiere of Dead Planets Society our h...
Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by ...
Remote-controlled cockroaches with computers mounted on their backs can move as a swarm towards a ta...
A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found ...
A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, and its st...
Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and b...
One species of nematode worm turns into a kin-devouring nightmare if it grows up in a crowded enviro...
Geoscientists are using telecom 'dark fibres' to m...
The networks of fibre optic cables that criss-cross the planet could be used to better understand wh...
Parkinson's disease progression slowed by antibody...
Monthly infusions with the drug prasinezumab appeared to slow the progression of motor symptoms in p...
Deadly upwellings of cold water pose threat to mig...
Climate change is making extreme cold upwellings more common in certain regions of the world, and th...
We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks t...
Mounting evidence suggests our galaxy sits at the centre of an expanse of nothingness 2 billion ligh...
Are panda sex lives being sabotaged by the wrong g...
Conservationists think tweaking pandas’ diets might shift their gut microbiomes in a way that could ...
See inside an endangered California condor egg jus...
The hatching of the 250th California condor chick at the San Diego Zoo marks a notable milestone for...
‘Peaceful’ male bonobos may actually be more aggre...
Bonobos have long been regarded as the peaceful ape, in sharp contrast with violent chimpanzees, but...
Arctic permafrost is now a net source of major gre...
An Arctic-wide survey has found that the permafrost region is emitting more carbon into the atmosphe...
