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Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that kil...
The conventional view of the age of the dinosaurs is that mammals lived in the shadows until the day...
Self-healing robot recovers from being stabbed the...
A simple robot has sensors that can detect when they are damaged, stop the robot, self-heal and inst...
Everything you need to know about the US megadroug...
From individual water use to lessons from past civilisations, here's what our Parched Earth series r...
A weird gamma ray burst doesn't fit our understand...
Astronomers have spotted a strange blast of gamma radiation from space that defies categorisation, a...
Thousands of genetic variants may influence smokin...
In a study of nearly 3.4 million people, almost 4000 genetic variants were linked to how much alcoho...
DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever re...
DNA bound to mineral particles in ancient sediment reveals that north Greenland once had spruce fore...
We’re rushing the use of psychedelics as medicine,...
Colorado has become the second US state to legalise psychedelic drugs for medicinal uses, but psyche...
Self-knowledge: How to know your true personality ...
When it comes to knowing yourself, your own perception of your personality doesn’t necessarily align...
Why you may never be able to buy your own self-dri...
Despite recent claims of vehicles having full automation, it is no more possible to buy a truly self...
Building blocks for life may be able to form in ra...
Amino acids have been found in meteorites, and now an experiment shows how they might have been crea...
The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription review: Getting r...
Everyone needs great sleep, but this is tough in a world where other basic needs - like earning a li...
Ancient yeast used to brew the first lagers discov...
Lager originated in Europe but the wild yeast species that gives the beer its tang hasn’t been found...
Rare fossil reveals 'destroyer of shins' dinosaurs...
Damage to the spikes on the back of a fossil of a Zuul crurivastator suggest that these armoured din...
Venice may get a temporary respite from rising sea...
High winter sea levels in Venice are linked to warmer sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic...
What the world’s largest liquid mirror telescope m...
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope, perched high in the Himalayas, has finally started making...
Heat pump uses a loudspeaker and wet strips of pap...
A prototype heat pump that uses water and sound to cool is three times as efficient as previous comp...
A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax...
Honeyguide birds lead humans to bees’ nests and get beeswax as a reward, but camera traps reveal tha...
AI listens to toilet sounds to guess whether peopl...
An artificial intelligence that can detect diarrhoea with 98 per cent accuracy from recordings of to...
