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Shiveluch volcano eruption in Russia smothers near...
The eruption of the Shiveluch volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on 11 April sent plumes o...
Exoplanets with a permanent day side may sometimes...
Some planets outside our solar system are thought to be tidally locked, with one side always facing ...
Ultraviolet camo made from natural plant dyes coul...
Birds can see in ultraviolet, so a form of camouflage made using natural plant dyes that helps conce...
Tonight is your best chance to see Mercury in the ...
As the smallest planet in the solar system, and the closest to the sun, Mercury is hard to spot - bu...
X-ray map of the Crab nebula reveals strange pocke...
The Crab nebula is one of the most thoroughly studied cosmic objects ever, but new observations have...
Farmland could feed 20 billion people but it might...
Reaching the maximum feeding capacity from current agricultural land would require a global shift to...
Rich people use so much water that it is threateni...
A three-year drought in Cape Town, South Africa, may have been worsened by high-income people fillin...
What are the prospects for life on the icy moons E...
As far as we know, there are three main ingredients required for life: liquid water, an energy sourc...
Shapes 3D printed into living worms could be futur...
A technique to 3D print conductive circuits directly into living organisms could one day be used in ...
Underwater pendulums could calm waves and reduce c...
A device made of cylinders tethered to the ocean floor could lessen the ferocity of waves, preventin...
US reservoirs are evaporating more quickly because...
The rate of evaporation at US reservoirs is speeding up, and could significantly increase by the mid...
Roots of five medical conditions shown in map of t...
Studying donated embryonic and fetal brains has shown some of the genetic pathways involved in certa...
Chimpanzees may have an adolescent growth spurt li...
It has been thought that a period of rapid growth in adolescence is unique to humans, but markers in...
A supermassive black hole is hurtling away from it...
For the first time, researchers have spotted what appears to be a supermassive black hole flying awa...
Climate change may drive more hurricanes towards t...
Warming in the eastern Pacific Ocean may change wind patterns above the Gulf of Mexico, leading to m...
Vertical farm cuts energy use 75 per cent by using...
A vertical farm built inside a greenhouse in Texas can produce hundreds of thousands of heads of let...
Higher temperatures are leading to more home runs ...
Since 2010, around 500 home runs in Major League Baseball can be attributed to the lowering of air d...
An AI dedicated to drawing hands could help all th...
Weird hands have become a well-known way to identify an image generated by artificial intelligence, ...
