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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...
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...
