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Robot dinosaur tests surprising theory about the e...
Experiments with a robotic dinosaur suggest feathers may have evolved to startle prey into fleeing f...
Tiny marsupials sacrifice sleep for sex during the...
Antechinus males only live for one breeding season, so they give up 3 hours of sleep a night during ...
Owls may actually be able to turn their heads a fu...
Owls are famously good at rotating their heads, but now anatomical findings suggest they really coul...
Pancake-like comets may be made by whirling clouds...
We keep finding pancake-like objects in the solar system and it could be because they form in a cert...
Exquisite Jurassic fossils reveal cannibalism in a...
Three fossils of Pachycormus fish from the dinosaur era feature smaller members of the same species ...
Wearable device monitors tumour size and displays ...
A wearable device that sticks to the skin can constantly measure the size of certain tumours and wir...
Robot avatar lets people see and feel things remot...
A person wearing a VR headset and haptic feedback gloves can control the iCub 3 robot and experience...
Retinal images could predict future risk of heart ...
People with unusually thin retinas are at greater risk of later developing bronchitis and other cond...
Toxic mud from aluminium production can be used to...
Producing steel generates huge amounts of CO2 emissions. These could be reduced with a technique tha...
US states had 65,000 rape-related pregnancies afte...
Estimates suggest that there were tens of thousands of pregnancies as a result of rape between July ...
Syphilis-like bacteria found in 2000-year-old huma...
Four skeletons in a prehistoric burial site in Brazil contain the DNA of bacteria that are closely r...
Fungi grow faster if you play sounds to them
Fungi exposed to acoustic stimulation in lab experiments have faster growth rates, suggesting a poss...
Why is the US still in such poor health, despite i...
A decade ago, a study showed that the US had the lowest life expectancy among high-income countries....
Electricity demand from data centres set to double...
The world needs more data centres to support internet activity and the AI boom. That could double th...
Four new emperor penguin colonies have been discov...
Satellite images have helped to locate four previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins in the A...
A bacterium switches from prey to predator when it...
Growing up at a different temperature seems to transform common prey bacteria into predators, sugges...
Reversing type 2 diabetes is much harder than clin...
People with type 2 diabetes who take part in clinical trials may benefit from professional weight lo...
See what the world looks like through the eyes of ...
A camera can recreate how animals see the world through both visible and ultraviolet light
