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Deliberate fires are responsible for half of the l...
The finding that managed fires burn a much greater area than thought means we may be underestimating...
Drug residue can be detected in fingerprints left ...
Forensic investigators can reliably measure drug and explosive residue using gels that lift fingerpr...
Geoengineering could save the ice sheets – but onl...
Shading the planet by spraying aerosols into the stratosphere might stave off ice sheet collapse, mo...
Nocturnal ants use polarised moonlight to find the...
An Australian bull ant is the first animal known to use the patterns produced by polarised moonlight...
How cannabis gets you high and alters your percept...
20 April is weed's unofficial holiday. In honour of the special day, we collected our answers to all...
Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded...
It can be difficult to figure out how to move a spacecraft from one orbit to another, but a trick fr...
Animals may help ecosystems store 3 times more car...
Carbon storage calculations don’t always take into account the effects of animals – when they eat, d...
Songs that birds 'sing' in their dreams translated...
By measuring how birds’ vocal muscles move while they are asleep and using a physical model for how ...
Your genes may influence how much you enjoy listen...
Identical twins seem to experience more similar levels of pleasure when listening to music than non-...
Wind turbines based on condor wings could capture ...
Curved wing tips inspired by the world's heaviest flying bird could enhance the efficiency of wind t...
Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,00...
A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago, raising the possibility that hom...
Autonomous e-scooters could ride themselves back t...
Teams of staff usually return e-scooters to where they will be needed, but adapted scooters that can...
This cosy, charming puzzle game has you saving for...
Set in an English manor in 1890, Botany Manor is a video game that places you in the shoes of a bota...
Extreme heat in 2023 linked to drastic slump in gr...
Last year’s marine heatwaves saw an unprecedented decline in the growth of phytoplankton and algae, ...
Dietary changes relieve irritable bowel syndrome b...
Both a special diet that excludes “FODMAP” compounds and a low-carb high-fibre diet were effective
Cocaine seems to hijack brain pathways that priori...
Cocaine and morphine hijacked neural responses in the brains of mice, which resulted in them consumi...
Fossil snake discovered in India may have been the...
The vertebrae of Vasuki indicus, a snake that lived 47 million years ago, suggest it could have been...
Jupiter's moon Io has been a volcanic inferno for ...
Measurements of sulphur isotopes in Io’s atmosphere show that the moon may have been volcanically ac...
