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Pepper X: The world has a new hottest chilli
Pepper X scorches the previous record holder, the Carolina Reaper, by a million Scoville heat units
Why the Gaza water crisis is decades in the making...
The UN says approximately 2 million people in Gaza may soon run out of water because Israel has shut...
Scientists can communicate with people while they ...
This is the first such communication method to be established with people who are not lucid dreamers...
People around Europe have eaten seaweed for thousa...
Traces of algae on teeth found at archaeological sites suggest that seaweeds may have been a staple ...
Tiny generator uses the motion of molecules to pro...
Generating electricity from the movements of molecules in a fluid could one day power devices like t...
The trees in our cities are dying — a sick microbi...
Efforts to expand urban green spaces are undermined by street trees dying prematurely. Restoring the...
Coin flips don't truly have a 50/50 chance of bein...
Researchers who flipped coins 350,757 times have confirmed that the chance of landing the coin the s...
Largest quake ever seen on Mars points to surprisi...
Mars is generally thought of as being geologically dead, but a huge marsquake measured by NASA's InS...
Prize-winning photos highlight the impact of clima...
A glacier under covers, a fish in danger of losing its home and threatened African penguins feature ...
Stunning photo of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is ou...
NASA's Juno spacecraft has swooped close to Jupiter's moon Io, capturing this amazing photo of the s...
Dung beetles' feeding habits can be used to track ...
Biologists identified DNA from six species of lemurs in the guts of dung beetles collected in Madaga...
Could nuclear weapons testing resume as global ten...
Only North Korea has detonated nuclear weapons during the 21st century, but recent indications sugge...
Cannabis has a shocking environmental cost – here'...
Growing cannabis can consume astonishingly large amounts of electricity and water, as well as damage...
It takes just 108 milliseconds for our brains to s...
When you look at an object, it takes just 108 to 116 milliseconds for your brain to decide if it is ...
Seven wonders of the Milky Way: An astronomer’s gu...
Join us on an exhilarating tour of the Milky Way’s most spectacular sights – from a monstrous black ...
Paris's bedbug problem is probably no worse than o...
An apparent resurgence of bedbugs has incited panic in France, but there is no scientific evidence o...
High-dose vitamin D may lower your risk of going t...
Taking a higher-than-recommended dose of vitamin D every day may reduce the risk of being hospitalis...
Under 18s who drive independently develop a better...
People who drove by themselves before they turned 18 are better at navigating than those who first d...
