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Dust clouds from the Sahara are reaching Europe mo...
Changes in wind patterns and desertification may be increasing the amount of dust from the Sahara de...
Birds make an 'after you' gesture to prompt their ...
Japanese tits sometimes flutter their wings in an apparent gesture of encouraging their mate to ente...
Humans spread more viruses to other animals than t...
An analysis of viral genomes shows it is more common for viruses to jump from humans to other animal...
Tiny deer from the dry valleys of Peru recognised ...
A 38-centimetre-tall deer, found in an arid region in the central Andes, is the first new deer speci...
NASA's mission to Europa isn't meant to find alien...
Later this year, NASA is launching its Europa Clipper spacecraft to the icy moon of Jupiter. Its mis...
Medieval horses buried in London had far-flung ori...
Isotopic analysis of horse teeth from a medieval burial site suggest that the animals were imported ...
Dogs really do understand that words stand for obj...
Pet dogs have different patterns of brain activity when they are shown an object that doesn’t match ...
Largest recorded solar storm was even bigger than ...
Rediscovered magnetic recordings reveal just how extreme the largest recorded solar storm in history...
Ant queens have good reasons for eating their own ...
Feasting on family members may be an unorthodox way for ant queens to keep their fledgling colonies ...
Male and female spiders pair up to look like a flo...
Together, a dark-hued male crab spider and a larger, paler female resemble a flower, in what researc...
Why giving AI a robot body could make its ‘brain’ ...
At its AI conference, Nvidia announced new software and hardware for AI-powered humanoid robots: a m...
SpaceX’s Starship created a volcano-like explosion...
The Starship rocket destroyed its launch pad during its first launch attempt in 2023, and the explos...
Organic farms seem to trigger more pesticide use o...
Insects tend to be more abundant on organic farms than conventional ones, which may cause the pests ...
Pig kidney transplanted into living human for the ...
A genetically modified pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a living human – and the r...
Sulphur dioxide from Iceland volcano eruption has ...
A huge plume of sulphur dioxide from the latest eruption in Iceland is drifting across Europe, but i...
Teen sweat has distinct chemical make-up with note...
Teenagers and babies produce different chemicals in their sweat, which may be why infants are genera...
Food costs more because of climate change - and it...
Rising temperatures are predicted to drive up food inflation by between 0.9 and 3.2 per cent a year ...
Why 2024 Abel prize winner Michel Talagrand became...
After losing an eye at the age of 5, the 2024 Abel prize winner Michel Talagrand found comfort in ma...
