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How our golden age of asteroid exploration could r...
What did NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to sample Bennu discover? Mission leader Dante Lauretta says the ...
Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for ...
Existing quantum computers can solve some problems faster than any ordinary computer, but none of th...
Smart glasses use sonar to work out where you're l...
Gaze-tracking devices normally rely on cameras, but a new system uses reflected sound to track where...
These 7 mathematical facts will blow your mind
What better way is there to celebrate pi day than with a slice of mathematics? Here are 7 mathematic...
AI could help replicate smells in danger of being ...
Artificial intelligence has been used to replicate fragrances more quickly than conventional methods...
Persistent pain after a UTI may be due to an overg...
Many people experience ongoing pain even after a urinary tract infection has supposedly passed. Now,...
Why space dust is key to everything from star birt...
Cosmic dust grains may be small, but they are mighty – it turns out dust is crucial to just about ev...
Fear of predators may have helped us conceptualise...
A fear of predators may have helped many animals recognise when they weren't there. Now, it seems hu...
Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-...
As part of a lawsuit against OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk has asked a court to determine whether GP...
UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear...
Since Brexit, the UK no longer has access to ITER, the world's largest nuclear fusion experiment, th...
The best new science fiction books of March 2024
With a new Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mars-set romance from Natasha Pulley and a high-concept thriller from...
Sinking plankton poo could help store more carbon ...
When the faecal matter produced by plankton sinks, it carries carbon from shallow waters to long-ter...
Does 23andMe's decline show genetic-based medicine...
23andMe's DNA test was once named "invention of the year", but now the company is in dire financial ...
1 in 8 people worldwide has obesity
Between 1990 and 2022, obesity rates more than doubled among adults and quadrupled among children an...
El Niño will cause record-breaking heat across the...
A climate model has forecast where the most extreme heat will occur during the current El Niño phase...
Squid-like plant that lives mostly underground is ...
For the first time in nearly a century, a new genus of plant has been discovered in Japan, but it lo...
Keto diet helps people maintain weight loss after ...
In a small study, people with type 2 diabetes maintained their weight loss on the low-carbohydrate k...
How do you recycle a nuclear fusion reactor? We're...
The UK's JET nuclear fusion reactor has been shut down after 40 years, and now researchers hope to r...
