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Eerie green sunsets after 1883 Krakatoa eruption f...
Mysterious green sunsets were reported after the massive eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 – now simulati...
Storks refine their migration routes as they learn...
Tracking data shows that young white storks spend more time exploring new places, while older ones t...
Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its se...
The ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the best places we have found to search for alien l...
Organoids made from uterus fluid may help treat fe...
Fetal cells retrieved from fluid in the uterus can now be turned into balls of cells called organoid...
How our golden age of asteroid exploration could r...
What did NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to sample Bennu discover? Mission leader Dante Lauretta says the ...
Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for ...
Existing quantum computers can solve some problems faster than any ordinary computer, but none of th...
Smart glasses use sonar to work out where you're l...
Gaze-tracking devices normally rely on cameras, but a new system uses reflected sound to track where...
These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind
What better way is there to celebrate pi day than with a slice of mathematics? Here are 7 mathematic...
AI could help replicate smells in danger of being ...
Artificial intelligence has been used to replicate fragrances more quickly than conventional methods...
Persistent pain after a UTI may be due to an overg...
Many people experience ongoing pain even after a urinary tract infection has supposedly passed. Now,...
Why space dust is key to everything from star birt...
Cosmic dust grains may be small, but they are mighty – it turns out dust is crucial to just about ev...
Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise...
A fear of predators may have helped many animals recognise when they weren't there. Now, it seems hu...
Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-...
As part of a lawsuit against OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk has asked a court to determine whether GP...
UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear...
Since Brexit, the UK no longer has access to ITER, the world's largest nuclear fusion experiment, th...
The best new science fiction books of March 2024
With a new Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mars-set romance from Natasha Pulley and a high-concept thriller from...
Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon ...
When the faecal matter produced by plankton sinks, it carries carbon from shallow waters to long-ter...
Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine...
23andMe's DNA test was once named "invention of the year", but now the company is in dire financial ...
1 in 8 people worldwide has obesity
Between 1990 and 2022, obesity rates more than doubled among adults and quadrupled among children an...
