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How to see the Lyrid meteor shower and when is the...
Caused by debris from a comet thought to originate in the Oort Cloud, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks ...
Old-fashioned pessimism might actually help us fig...
Negative thinking is unpopular but it could drive more realistic efforts to limit harm from global w...
Skin-deep wounds can damage gut health in mice
We know there is some connection between skin and gut health, but many assumed the gut was the one c...
Turning plants blue with gene editing could make r...
Weeding robots can sometimes struggle to tell weeds from crops, but genetically modifying the plants...
Intel reveals world's biggest 'brain-inspired' neu...
A computer intended to mimic the way the brain processes and stores data could potentially improve t...
A new understanding of tinnitus and deafness could...
Investigations of the paradoxical link between tinnitus and hearing loss have revealed a hidden form...
A cicada double brood is coming – it's less rare t...
Up to 17 US states could be peppered with more than a trillion cicadas this spring, and though it ha...
Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yiel...
Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks...
Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain ...
We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, but ...
Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a w...
A serendipitous lab accident revealed that hibernating bumblebee queens can make it through days of ...
Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here...
Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhyt...
The man reinventing economics with chaos theory an...
Traditional economics makes ludicrous assumptions and poor predictions. Now an alternative approach ...
Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon sto...
Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5°C of warming assumes we can store vast amoun...
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...
