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The plague may have wiped out most northern Europe...
DNA evidence from tombs in Sweden and Denmark suggests major plague outbreaks were responsible for t...
Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we pr...
A dead whale was tagged with satellite tracking equipment and monitored for more than a week as part...
Mobile weather labs map toll of extreme heat in sc...
Trucks outfitted with weather sensors, lasers and balloons are mapping urban microclimates in the ex...
Crushed rocks and fertiliser switches can cut nitr...
Adding crushed basalt rocks and special fertilisers to soils could cut nitrous oxide emissions witho...
Giant dome filled with CO2 could store excess powe...
Italian firm Energy Dome is building a "CO2 battery" in Sardinia that will store excess power from r...
When did human ancestors start walking on two legs...
Anthropologists have been arguing for 20 years about whether Sahelanthropus, a hominin that lived ab...
Artificial flavours released by cooking aim to imp...
Lab-grown meat can be shaped into steaks and meatballs, but it can be lacking in the flavour departm...
The secret ingredient shaping your microbiome and ...
Your body is home to trillions of beneficial viruses crucial for a healthy microbiome. We may one da...
How tiny black holes would behave inside the sun, ...
In this episode of Dead Planets Society, our hosts place primordial black holes in a variety of obje...
Google creates self-replicating life from digital ...
A digital "primordial soup" with no rules or direction can lead to the emergence of self-replicating...
'Butter' made from CO2 could pave the way for food...
US start-up Savor says its synthetic vegan fat, made without livestock or the crops needed for marga...
Stunning blue-skinned frog is a rare genetic mutan...
The magnificent tree frog (Litoria splendida) is normally a vibrant green, but conservationists in A...
Self-cooling artificial grass could help cities ha...
An artificial sports pitch that stores water below the surface cools itself down on hot days by lett...
Cosmic rays can help synchronise the global financ...
Particles generated by cosmic rays can penetrate indoor and underground environments with ease, and ...
Evolutionary story of Australia's dingoes revealed...
Dingoes, the native wild dogs of Australia, arrived on the continent more than 3000 years ago and th...
Is ultra-processed food unhealthy? Here's why no o...
While ultra-processed food is the latest buzzword in nutrition, the scientific evidence for how it a...
Why did humans evolve big brains? A new idea bodes...
Recent fossil finds suggest that big brains weren't an evolutionary asset to our ancestors but evolv...
Gene therapy could prevent the tau tangles linked ...
Tests on lab-grown “mini-brains” show a one-off gene therapy treatment can prevent the formation of ...
