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African penguins recognise their partners by the s...
The unique patterns of dots on the front of African penguins seem to be key to their ability to pick...
COP28: When is the climate summit and why is it be...
The COP28 climate summit is taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 30 November to 12 Dece...
Space flight may increase erectile dysfunction amo...
Rats that experienced a simulation of microgravity and cosmic radiation showed signs of erectile dys...
Some unbreakable encryption keys are accidentally ...
A widely used form of encryption called RSA is thought to be unbreakable, but an analysis of more th...
How excited should we be by signs of life spotted ...
We keep spotting molecular “biosignatures” in the atmospheres of planets beyond Earth, but it isn't ...
What would life on Earth be like if our planet wer...
In the two-part season finale of Dead Planets Society, our hosts are turning Earth into a cube with ...
A big gulf in ocean science threatens to sink the ...
To tackle global warming, we must properly grasp what is happening in the oceans. That is why, at CO...
Russia's war effort may be blinding a vital Earth ...
A satellite that monitors sea ice thickness is being blinded over Europe and the Arctic due to heavy...
Strange nebula changes colour rhythmically like a ...
A mysterious, star-like object seems to be making its nebula change colour and brightness in a rhyth...
Endangered vultures saved from deadly poisoning an...
A decade-long conservation effort spanning 14 countries has halted the decline of a key population o...
NVIDIA wants to use AI chatbots to help build bett...
Generative AI tools such as chatbots may be able to help chip designers generate code and find softw...
Cannabis derails train of thought, but may not aff...
Cannabis interferes with the working memory we use to keep track of what we are doing, but whether t...
Brain cells that tell mice it's time to eat may al...
Further light has been shed on the mechanism of weight-loss injections like Wegovy and Ozempic, as t...
Hairy legs make you swim better – if you're a shri...
Normally, hair increases drag whilst swimming but for shrimp hair seems to make it easier for them t...
Plants are more productive on weekends thanks to c...
Satellite data from Europe shows that rates of photosynthesis are higher when aerosol levels in the ...
Bat uses its huge penis like an arm during sex
Video recordings reveal that penetration does not occur when serotine bats mate; instead males use t...
Cannabis addiction may be partly down to genetics
An analysis of genetic data from more than 1 million people shows that those with cannabis use disor...
How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, ...
Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that lived on in a world dominated by big-brained early humans....
