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Should we tweak the atmosphere to counteract globa...
With severe climate impacts becoming more and more apparent, many scientists think we should explore...
Glucose monitors may misclassify people as being a...
Our blood sugar levels vary a lot from day to day, so results from continuous glucose monitors need ...
Some scientists say insects are conscious – it doe...
A group of around 40 scientists signed a declaration calling for formal acknowledgement of conscious...
Has the US finally figured out how to do high-spee...
As work begins on building the US’s first high-speed rail service – linking Los Angeles to Las Vegas...
Single atoms captured morphing into quantum waves ...
In the 1920s, Erwin Schrödinger wrote an equation that predicts how particles-turned-waves should be...
The incredible new tech that can recycle all plast...
"Advanced recycling" promises to convert dirty, mixed waste plastic into brand new plastic time and ...
Deliberate fires are responsible for half of the l...
The finding that managed fires burn a much greater area than thought means we may be underestimating...
Drug residue can be detected in fingerprints left ...
Forensic investigators can reliably measure drug and explosive residue using gels that lift fingerpr...
Geoengineering could save the ice sheets – but onl...
Shading the planet by spraying aerosols into the stratosphere might stave off ice sheet collapse, mo...
Nocturnal ants use polarised moonlight to find the...
An Australian bull ant is the first animal known to use the patterns produced by polarised moonlight...
How cannabis gets you high and alters your percept...
20 April is weed's unofficial holiday. In honour of the special day, we collected our answers to all...
Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded...
It can be difficult to figure out how to move a spacecraft from one orbit to another, but a trick fr...
Animals may help ecosystems store 3 times more car...
Carbon storage calculations don’t always take into account the effects of animals – when they eat, d...
Songs that birds 'sing' in their dreams translated...
By measuring how birds’ vocal muscles move while they are asleep and using a physical model for how ...
Your genes may influence how much you enjoy listen...
Identical twins seem to experience more similar levels of pleasure when listening to music than non-...
Wind turbines based on condor wings could capture ...
Curved wing tips inspired by the world's heaviest flying bird could enhance the efficiency of wind t...
Early humans spread as far north as Siberia 400,00...
A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago, raising the possibility that hom...
Autonomous e-scooters could ride themselves back t...
Teams of staff usually return e-scooters to where they will be needed, but adapted scooters that can...
