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The surprising way sunflowers work together to get...
Scientists have known for centuries that sunflowers wobble in seemingly random ways as they grow – b...
Why is mpox a global emergency again so soon?
Mpox was made a public health emergency of international concern for the first time in July 2022, wi...
Why the T in ChatGPT is AI's biggest breakthrough ...
AI companies hope that feeding ever more data to their models will continue to boost performance, ev...
The AI boom is built on one breakthrough – what ha...
AI companies hope that feeding ever more data to their models will continue to boost performance, ev...
Why ‘sling action’ bowling deceives so many batter...
Experiments in a wind tunnel have revealed why the sling action bowling technique made famous by Sri...
1 in 5 people in a coma may be aware of their surr...
Many people in a coma seem to think about complex tasks when instructed, which suggests they are awa...
The crisis in our oceans shows how quickly climate...
A rapid rise in global sea temperatures is causing havoc across the world. It is a compelling remind...
How climate change has pushed our oceans to the br...
For decades, the oceans have absorbed much of the excess heat caused by greenhouse gases. The latest...
Stonehenge’s altar stone was brought all the way f...
The nearest source of the altar stone at the centre of Stonehenge has finally been identified – and ...
Largest genome sequenced so far is 30 times bigger...
The South American lungfish has a whopping 180 gigabases of DNA in each cell, compared with 6 gigaba...
Consumer insecticides are useless for fighting coc...
Lab-reared German cockroaches are susceptible to consumer insecticide sprays, allowing manufacturers...
How crocodiles were taught to stop eating deadly t...
Invasive cane toads have decimated native freshwater crocodile populations in Northern Australia, as...
Why the amazing Altamura Man fossil remains a myst...
This month we’re in an Italian cave with a bellissimo fossil. If I was giving a live talk, at this p...
Is youth mental health really worse today than it ...
Young people's mental health is declining, statistics suggest, but some have questioned whether this...
We keep finding water on Mars – here are all the p...
Researchers recently found a possible reservoir of liquid water more than 11 kilometres below Mars's...
MDMA therapies hit a roadblock – what's next?
The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected the psychedelic drug MDMA as a treatment for post-t...
New spin on quantum theory forces rethink of a fun...
In the quantum realm, a particle’s properties can be separate from the particle itself, including it...
Russian-occupied Ukrainian nuclear plant at risk, ...
A fire at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has former workers at the...
