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Is a vital ocean current just decades away from ca...
Two studies suggest the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation could collapse by the middle of ...
A microscopic diving board can cheat the second la...
Working with a tiny cantilever, physicists managed to violate the second law of thermodynamics, usin...
Your pupils change size as you breathe
Our pupils shrink and expand as we breathe in and out, but whether this affects vision is unclear
Denisovan DNA may help modern humans adapt to diff...
Highland and lowland populations in Papua New Guinea have different gene variants derived from Denis...
Russia is building ground-based kamikaze robots ou...
Hoverboards, or self-balancing scooters, are already used by hobbyists as a basis for robots, but no...
Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earli...
All life on Earth can trace its origin to LUCA, the last universal common ancestor – and now it seem...
Astronauts could drink their own urine with water-...
When astronauts go on a spacewalk, their urine is collected by what is essentially a large diaper be...
You can turn any random sequence of events into a ...
A set of mathematical equations can help turn apparently random observations into a clock – and then...
Laser helps turn an electron into a coil of mass a...
Researchers have reshaped single electrons into spiralling matter waves with distinct handedness tha...
Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadia...
Thick sea ice is flowing into the Northwest Passage, complicating predictions that melting ice due t...
Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in free...
A complete genome has been extracted from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, which might bring us clo...
Menstrual pads that turn blood solid could reduce ...
Adding a polymer-alcohol mixture to menstrual pads causes blood to solidify, rather than being absor...
People with Alzheimer's disease benefit from spend...
Horse therapy helps people with Alzheimer's disease socialise and improves their mood to a greater e...
Speed of decision-making reflects our biases
Within a group of decision-makers, the longer it takes someone to make a choice, the less likely the...
Lions' record-breaking swim across channel capture...
Two lions, one missing a leg, made a 1.5-kilometre swim through crocodile-infested waters in Uganda,...
Governments bans on quantum computer exports have ...
Several nations around the world have placed arbitrary limits on the export of quantum computers, de...
How a simple physics experiment could reveal the “...
Could the universe's missing matter be hiding in a "dark" extra dimension? We now have simple ways t...
A long-standing mystery about breastfeeding may ha...
Researchers have discovered a hormone in mice that prevents bone loss during lactation and could one...
