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Why do covid cases rise in summer, unlike other re...
Flu and other respiratory viruses seem to barely exist outside of winter, but covid-19 cases have co...
A glob of jelly can play Pong thanks to a basic ki...
Researchers trained a polymer gel to play the computer game Pong by passing electric current through...
Strange stars full of metals may be created by imp...
After a star explodes, the resulting supernova remnant collapses in on itself and could begin the cy...
Intestinal parasites may reduce covid-19 vaccine e...
Around 25 per cent of the world’s population has intestinal parasite infections – these could hinder...
Quantum trick lets you cool objects down using not...
Physicists have demonstrated a bizarre cooling effect by setting up a detector to record the absence...
The 1.5°C target is dead, but climate action needn...
For the first time, climate scientists have explicitly said it will be impossible to limit peak warm...
Long covid causes very different symptoms in child...
In children aged 6 to 11, long covid seems to often present as sleep problems or abdominal issues, w...
AI models can't learn as they go along like humans...
After their initial training phase, AI algorithms can’t update and learn from new data, meaning tech...
This antimatter version of an atomic nucleus is th...
Smashing gold nuclei together at high speeds billions of times has resulted in 16 particles of antih...
Why NASA is sending a probe to Europa – and what i...
Past observations have indicated that the icy moon of Jupiter has a vast subsurface ocean. Launching...
We now know that life began on Earth much earlier ...
A big rethink of our planet’s early years adds to growing fossil, chemical and DNA evidence that Ear...
Astronomers might finally have explanation for mys...
A radio signal detected in 1977, sometimes claimed as evidence for aliens, may have been caused by a...
Does eating meat really raise your risk of type 2 ...
Red and processed meat, and even poultry, seem to raise the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, acco...
Fuzzy quantum effects have been seen on the larges...
A weird quantum phenomenon called delocalisation has been measured for a 100-nanometre glass bead, h...
The surprising science of coffee and its effect on...
The latest research on caffeine reveals why coffee and decaf can be so good for your health, but ene...
AI could help shrinking pool of coders keep outdat...
Computer code dating back to the 1960s is still vital to banks, airlines and governments, but progra...
How 'forever chemicals' reached one of the world's...
Scientists have found significant concentrations of a type of PFAS chemical in the air deep in the A...
Cocaine in mummified brains reveals when Europeans...
The use of cocaine only took off in Europe during the 19th century, after the drug was chemically is...
