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Strange ‘magic islands’ on Saturn’s moon Titan may...
Titan’s methane seas have ephemeral “magic islands” that have baffled scientists for years. They may...
Some brain regions shrink in pregnancy and regrow ...
Brain scans of 110 first-time mothers during and after pregnancy showed that some brain regions beco...
NASA unveils X-59 plane to test supersonic flight ...
NASA is hoping to gather evidence that its X-59 aircraft will be able to fly at the speed of sound q...
First unhackable shopping transactions carried out...
A secure exchange between a merchant and a buyer has been successfully tested as a proof of concept ...
AI can tell if prints from two different fingers b...
An artificial intelligence model can discern whether fingerprints from different fingers come from t...
Caves seen on the surface of a comet for the first...
By building a 3D image of part of the surface of a comet called 67P, astronomers have discovered cav...
Will AI make computer screens a thing of the past?...
Big tech companies are offering new ways to interact with devices, powered by natural language proce...
Hydropower generation in western US set to fall as...
A model of US water systems foresees a big drop in hydropower generation by 2050 as the climate gets...
Your unique breath ‘fingerprint’ could be used to ...
When we exhale, we reveal distinctive information about the shape of our airways, which could serve ...
The sun could contain a tiny black hole that forme...
Black holes may be hiding within stars and their extra mass could help explain odd gravitational eff...
Cheap drone attacks have outsized effect on global...
Drone attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are having a global economic impact and showing how an orga...
Guinness yeasts are genetically unique among Irish...
The Guinness brewery has kept a record of the yeast strains it has used going back to 1903 – a genet...
Molecules vital for life could survive in Venus’s ...
Venus is wrapped in clouds that are rich in concentrated sulphuric acid, and we now know that severa...
US grid vulnerable to power outages due to its rel...
Natural gas plant failures were the main factor behind electricity shortfalls and outages during maj...
Ancient cities discovered in the Amazon are the la...
A mysterious civilisation built a network of cities and roads in the Amazon between 3000 and 1500 ye...
Numbats are overheating because Australia is getti...
On a hot day, numbats can only look for food for 10 minutes before they are forced to seek shade, ra...
Chinese social network fails to curb abuse by show...
Weibo, a social media platform, tried to reduce incivility by displaying estimated locations for use...
Oldest known skin fossil is from 300-million-year-...
Ancient fragments of fossilised skin may help us understand how skin evolved as vertebrate animals m...
