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A common low-calorie sweetener raises the risk of ...
A small study found that the sugar substitute erythritol makes blood more susceptible to clotting, w...
Hardy bacteria found living inside microwaves
A surprisingly wide range of bacteria seem to endure the hot and dry environment inside domestic mic...
A surprisingly wide range of bacteria live inside ...
Microwaves in homes, offices and laboratories have been found to host diverse microbiomes, highlight...
Two NASA astronauts may be stuck on the space stat...
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft had so many problems during its first crewed launch to the Internation...
Leeches use their whole bodies to entomb and eat u...
Blackworms are ultra-fast swimmers, and they tangle up into worm balls to protect themselves from pr...
We could use glitter-like iron rods to help Mars s...
If we want to terraform the Red Planet to make it better able to host microbial life, tiny rods of i...
Bird deaths from building strikes may be double pa...
An estimate of annual bird fatalities due to building collisions in the US brings the figure to more...
Critics of the International Space Station are mis...
As the International Space Station comes to the end of its life, we should recognise its biggest ach...
Conspiracy theorists may not really believe their ...
People who claim to believe in conspiracy theories may not actually deep down, which researchers unc...
Spoilt, self-centered and lonely? Examining the on...
More and more parents are choosing to only have one child. Here’s what the evidence says about how g...
Racehorse success may depend on their gut microbio...
Horses that are bred to race seem to perform better on the course if they had a diverse gut microbio...
Modern fuel-efficient jets can cause more warming ...
Passenger planes and private jets that fly higher can create longer-lasting contrails, meaning their...
Sea lion cameras record amazing predator's view of...
Eight Australian sea lions were fitted with cameras and trackers to capture unprecedented insights i...
Can AI chatbots be reined in by a legal duty to te...
To address the problem of AIs generating inaccurate information, a team of ethicists says there shou...
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...
