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Blood-clotting drug derived from pigs can now be m...
A common anti-clotting drug called heparin is made from pig intestines, which risks contaminations a...
Mammoth carcass was scavenged by ancient humans an...
A southern mammoth skeleton found in Spain bears cut marks from stone tools and bite marks from carn...
Nobel-winning biologist on the most promising ways...
Efforts to extend our lifespan continue and many look promising, but success will have unintended co...
Titan’s sand dunes may be made of smashed up small...
The sand dunes that splay across the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan may be made of the ground-up rem...
Mathematicians plan computer proof of Fermat's las...
Fermat's last theorem puzzled mathematicians for centuries until it was finally proven in 1993. Now,...
Gold flecks make super-transparent glass fully opa...
A glare-free window that is opaque from the outside but still offers a clear view from inside could ...
Miniature furniture 3D printed using ink made from...
Waste wood can be reconstituted into a form that can be 3D printed and used to produce furniture or ...
Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of S...
Saturn’s moon Titan may have hundreds of strange ridges called yardangs that could teach us how the ...
Single mathematical model governs primate brain sh...
An analysis of primate brains shows that the pattern of folds on the surface follows the same mathem...
Mental illness may accelerate ageing by damaging R...
People with mental illness have greater amounts of damaged RNA than those without a mental health co...
‘Sound laser’ is the most powerful ever made
A new device uses a reflective cavity, a tiny bead and an electrode to create a laser beam of sound ...
What do home faecal test kits really reveal about ...
Many firms sell direct-to-consumer faecal testing kits, but an investigation has revealed that scien...
Should everyone start eating snakes to save the pl...
Pythons convert food into meat more efficiently than other livestock, and they can be fed on waste m...
Chimp mothers play with their youngsters even when...
Ten years’ worth of observations of a wild chimpanzee community show that most adults stop playing w...
Starship launch: Third flight reaches space but is...
The world’s most powerful rocket, Starship, launched from Texas and reached an altitude of more than...
Starship launch success: SpaceX's third flight rea...
The world’s most powerful rocket launched from Texas and reached an altitude of more than 230 kilome...
Can a pill really reverse ageing in dogs? Don't ge...
A trial suggests that giving older dogs a supplement makes them cognitively sharper, but some scient...
Starship launch 3: What time is the SpaceX flight ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up for the third launch of its massive Starship rocket, following two ...
