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Birds are using anti-bird spikes to make their nes...
Magpies and crows have been seen making nests using spikes placed on buildings to deter birds from n...
Carbon tax on luxuries is fairer way to cut emissi...
Instead of a uniform tax on carbon emissions, countries should apply higher taxes to luxury products...
Blanket for electric cars helps preserve battery p...
The lithium-ion batteries found in electric cars work best when kept within a certain temperature ra...
Beyond Wegovy: Could the next wave of weight-loss ...
Wegovy and Ozempic have made headlines, but a new wave of more effective drugs like Mounjaro have th...
People who microdose LSD sleep an extra 24 minutes...
Taking small amounts of the psychedelic substance LSD led to people sleeping for longer than when th...
Meteorite left Earth then landed back down after r...
Most of the meteorites found on Earth come from asteroids, but a few come from other bodies like Mar...
Swarm of storm-resilient drones will soon fly into...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is sending both flying and sailing drones into t...
Mosquitoes made immune to malaria could help stamp...
A gene-editing technique makes mosquitoes produce antibodies against the malaria parasite, which cou...
People with total colour blindness able to see red...
Thanks to gene therapy, people who could previously only detect shades of grey can now distinguish r...
One of chemistry's most crucial concepts is in cri...
Our understanding of aromaticity, a concept that underpins life itself, has been thrown into chaos. ...
Sex between two males is extremely common in wild ...
Almost three-quarters of male macaques observed by scientists mounted other males, and the behaviour...
Summer 2022 heatwaves killed 61,000 people in Euro...
Last year's summer was the hottest season ever recorded in Europe, and a new estimate shows there we...
Gravitational waves spark hunt for cosmic strings ...
The discovery of low-level ripples throughout the universe called the gravitational wave background ...
Earth review: BBC tells terrifying story of our pl...
This epic TV series kicks off with Inferno, the story of our planet’s biggest mass extinction. Host ...
There’s a huge radioactive slab of volcanic granit...
A block of granite on the far side of the moon used to be the inside of a volcano – though researche...
On board RRS Sir David Attenborough as it prepares...
Alec Luhn joins the UK’s new state-of-the-art polar research ship for trials in the North Sea ahead ...
Male spider mites rip off females’ skin to be firs...
Due to fierce competition for mates, male spider mites guard juvenile females and forcibly remove th...
Netflix invents new green-screen filming method us...
A faster and more accurate method for putting footage of actors in different backgrounds allows dire...
