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Frequently seeing friends and family may cut the r...
People who socialise regularly with friends or family live longer than those who never do, according...
Sea cucumbers surprise scientists with spectacular...
Ten sea cucumber species have been found to emit light for the first time, and researchers predict 2...
Hollywood strike ends – but actors’ battle against...
The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended with an agreement that requires studios to get...
Hummingbirds have two amazing ways to fly through ...
High-speed cameras reveal that hummingbirds fly sideways to fit through narrow openings, or fold bac...
Astronomers have found the most distant black hole...
The most distant supermassive black hole confirmed is more than 31 billion light years away, and it ...
Physicists have invented a new way to shake a mart...
Shaking a martini glass back and forth creates an intricate vortex pattern in the cocktail that take...
Greenland glaciers are receding twice as fast as i...
An analysis of archive photographs shows that the retreat rate of hundreds of glaciers around the co...
Peanut toothpaste shows promise at preventing alle...
A toothpaste that contains peanut proteins did not cause any serious side effects in people with an ...
Human eyeball successfully transplanted for the fi...
Aaron James received the first ever eyeball transplant during a 21-hour-long surgical procedure – an...
Highly effective weight-loss drug Zepbound approve...
A drug called tirzepatide and sold under the name Zepbound has been approved in the US and the UK fo...
The past 12 months were the hottest ever on record...
Between November 2022 and October 2023, global average temperatures rose to 1.32°C above the preindu...
Bubble collisions underwater may create tiny dropl...
We’ve long struggled to explain why sea spray contains so many tiny water droplets – now, experiment...
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s may be rolled out with...
The prediction stems from a project to translate tests currently used in research into aids for rout...
Highly effective weight-loss drug Zepbound approve...
A drug called tirzepatide and sold under the name Zepbound has been approved by the US Food and Drug...
The cannabis of the future might not come from pla...
We can now synthesise THC, CBD and other cannabinoids in bioreactors – these could be used to make n...
Distant Milky Way-like galaxy is older than we tho...
The most distant Milky Way-like galaxy ever seen – a barred spiral galaxy – has been spotted by the ...
Atom-by-atom recordings track what happens after s...
Solvation is the complicated process through which a dissolved substance like salt interacts with a ...
Yeast has half its DNA rewritten in quest for synt...
A team aiming to produce the first complex cell with an entirely synthetic genome has created a stra...
