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Heat pumps: How to speed up the switch to low-carb...
The rollout of heat pumps and other green heating technologies is going far too slowly in the UK – h...
Paper planes made by a robot fly better than ones ...
A robot that can design, build and test objects made from folded paper can make paper planes that fl...
Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dino...
A unique site in Brazil features rock carvings closely associated with dinosaur tracks, suggesting p...
Huge crater in India hints at major meteorite impa...
The Luna structure, a 1.8-kilometre-wide depression in north-west India, may have been caused by the...
Your nationality may influence how much you talk w...
When recounting an episode of the children's TV show Pingu, people from Italy made an average of 22 ...
Wildfire smoke may be deadliest effect of climate ...
Smoke from wildfires made worse by climate change is set to cause thousands of additional deaths eac...
The unexpected reasons why human childhood is extr...
Why childhood is so protracted has long been mysterious, now a spate of archaeological discoveries s...
Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many diff...
The author of In Ascension, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, on why he wrote his nov...
Dust clouds from the Sahara are reaching Europe mo...
Changes in wind patterns and desertification may be increasing the amount of dust from the Sahara de...
Birds make an 'after you' gesture to prompt their ...
Japanese tits sometimes flutter their wings in an apparent gesture of encouraging their mate to ente...
Humans spread more viruses to other animals than t...
An analysis of viral genomes shows it is more common for viruses to jump from humans to other animal...
Tiny deer from the dry valleys of Peru recognised ...
A 38-centimetre-tall deer, found in an arid region in the central Andes, is the first new deer speci...
NASA's mission to Europa isn't meant to find alien...
Later this year, NASA is launching its Europa Clipper spacecraft to the icy moon of Jupiter. Its mis...
Medieval horses buried in London had far-flung ori...
Isotopic analysis of horse teeth from a medieval burial site suggest that the animals were imported ...
Dogs really do understand that words stand for obj...
Pet dogs have different patterns of brain activity when they are shown an object that doesn’t match ...
Largest recorded solar storm was even bigger than ...
Rediscovered magnetic recordings reveal just how extreme the largest recorded solar storm in history...
Ant queens have good reasons for eating their own ...
Feasting on family members may be an unorthodox way for ant queens to keep their fledgling colonies ...
Male and female spiders pair up to look like a flo...
Together, a dark-hued male crab spider and a larger, paler female resemble a flower, in what researc...
