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Marmosets swap brain cells with their siblings
Most marmosets have non-identical twins or triplets, which exchange blood cells while in the uterus ...
COP28: Energy transition may cut 60% of oil-produc...
Without more international support, the transition away from fossil fuels could have disastrous effe...
COP28: Energy transition may cut oil-producing sta...
Without more international support, the transition away from fossil fuels could have disastrous effe...
Bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields with...
Like platypuses and some sharks, bottlenose dolphins have an electric sense which they may use to na...
Chinstrap penguins take thousands of very short na...
While incubating their eggs, chinstrap penguins need to stay vigilant for predators – so they only s...
DNA repair has been captured in a step-by-step mol...
Researchers have worked out how a protein called photolyase repairs DNA using light, and their disco...
Tiny star found harbouring a huge planet that shou...
An enormous planet has been spotted orbiting a small star, and it could not have formed under either...
Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones...
A 17th-century hospital crypt in Milan, Italy, has yielded the first archaeological evidence of cann...
The music you should play at a party to ensure con...
It is easier to focus on conversations when background music is playing if the song is unfamiliar to...
Physicists have worked out how to pour water as qu...
The sound of pouring water into a cup can be tamped down by changing the height of the pour or the d...
COP28: How this year shattered nearly every modern...
The COP28 climate summit kicked off with a report on the many records broken in 2023, including unpr...
The battle to bring beavers back to Scotland
The reintroduction of beavers has already transformed parts of the Scottish landscape and provided m...
Cannabis probably doesn't help you sleep better
Many people take cannabis to help them sleep, but there is little evidence that the drug makes a dif...
Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long befo...
Ancient footprints found in Lesotho resemble those left by birds, but they were made around 60 milli...
Ancient life thrived after supercontinents trapped...
There is a surprisingly close link between the flow of nutrient-rich soil around the ancient world a...
Crystal-hunting DeepMind AI could help discover ne...
We know of around 48,000 inorganic crystal structures, which provide materials with a range of prope...
A single bitcoin transaction uses enough water to ...
The environmental impact of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is increasingly being scrutinised, du...
Six planets found orbiting a bright star 100 light...
The orbits of six planets around the star HD 110067 have been in a fixed pattern for billions of yea...
