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Having more children protects parents’ brains from...
The brains of adults who have raised children appear younger later in life. Child-rearing seemed to ...
Watch a Möbius strip robot move and climb when hit...
When light strikes a soft robot made from a twisted strip of hydrogel sheets, it moves in a predicta...
Pigs seem less stressed if their barn is scented w...
If a lavender scent is sprayed into pig pens three times a day, the animals show less aggressive beh...
Does using the internet make us happier or sadder?...
A study of more than 2 million people in 168 countries suggests that having access to the internet i...
Doughnut-shaped swirls of laser light can be used ...
Ultra-fast pulses of laser light can be shaped into vortices similar to smoke rings – when chained t...
How to see tonight's northern lights – the stronge...
A rare geomagnetic storm not seen for nearly 20 years could cause a stunning aurora borealis on 10 a...
Dozens of stars show signs of hosting advanced ali...
Sufficiently advanced aliens would be able to capture vast quantities of energy from their star usin...
Heavy or painful menstrual periods are linked to w...
Heavy, prolonged or painful menstrual periods are associated with more days off school and scoring w...
500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to c...
A centuries-old maths problem asks what shape a circle traces out as it rolls along a line. The answ...
Monkeys can learn to tap to the beat of the Backst...
With a bit of training, macaques can make rhythmic movements in time with music, an ability only sho...
Extreme exercise may help you live longer without ...
People who can run a mile in less than 4 minutes generally live almost five years longer than would ...
Invisible 'dark radiation' may explain a big probl...
Surprising recent measurements hint that the universe isn’t expanding in the way we had thought, and...
Game theory shows we can never learn perfectly fro...
An analysis of a mathematical economic game suggests that even learning from past mistakes will almo...
Mars is blasting plasma out of its atmosphere into...
The Red Planet launches large bursts of plasma into space from its upper atmosphere, much like the s...
Has the biggest problem in cosmology finally been ...
For decades, cosmologists have been fighting over the Hubble constant, a number that represents the ...
How to reconnect with long-lost friends, according...
We are generally as reluctant to contact a long-lost friend as we are to talk to a stranger, but sci...
DeepMind is experimenting with a nearly indestruct...
A new robotic hand can withstand being smashed by pistons or walloped with a hammer. It was designed...
Being in two places at once could make a quantum b...
The quantum principle of superposition – the idea of particles being in multiple places at once – co...
