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How to destroy a black hole
A black hole would be tough to destroy, but in the season two premiere of Dead Planets Society our h...
Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by ...
Remote-controlled cockroaches with computers mounted on their backs can move as a swarm towards a ta...
A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found ...
A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, and its st...
Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and b...
One species of nematode worm turns into a kin-devouring nightmare if it grows up in a crowded enviro...
Geoscientists are using telecom 'dark fibres' to m...
The networks of fibre optic cables that criss-cross the planet could be used to better understand wh...
Parkinson's disease progression slowed by antibody...
Monthly infusions with the drug prasinezumab appeared to slow the progression of motor symptoms in p...
Deadly upwellings of cold water pose threat to mig...
Climate change is making extreme cold upwellings more common in certain regions of the world, and th...
We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks t...
Mounting evidence suggests our galaxy sits at the centre of an expanse of nothingness 2 billion ligh...
Are panda sex lives being sabotaged by the wrong g...
Conservationists think tweaking pandas’ diets might shift their gut microbiomes in a way that could ...
See inside an endangered California condor egg jus...
The hatching of the 250th California condor chick at the San Diego Zoo marks a notable milestone for...
‘Peaceful’ male bonobos may actually be more aggre...
Bonobos have long been regarded as the peaceful ape, in sharp contrast with violent chimpanzees, but...
Arctic permafrost is now a net source of major gre...
An Arctic-wide survey has found that the permafrost region is emitting more carbon into the atmosphe...
Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their v...
After a short conversation with an artificial intelligence, people’s belief in a conspiracy theory d...
Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human fami...
Five years ago, a fossil found in the Philippines was determined to be from a new species of hominin...
Water purifier is powered by static electricity fr...
A 10-minute walk can build up enough static electricity to power a battery-free water purifier, whic...
Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’
Not long after the last world war, the historian William L. Shirer had this to say about the next wo...
Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by An...
In this terrifying extract from Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, the author lays out what w...
Embryos pause development when nutrients are low —...
Embryos seem to have a sensor that picks up when nutrients are scarce, prompting them to pause their...
