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Rats squeak with happiness when they are with anot...
Rats emit a high-pitched squeak when around another rat, seemingly just to express a positive emotio...
Sweeteners: The bitter truth about low-calorie sug...
Low-calorie sweeteners such as aspartame have become common in all our diets. With concerns over the...
Can we smash together all of the asteroids to buil...
The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planet, so on this episode o...
Euclid space telescope releases its first stunning...
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has released five of its first science images, in...
The sun is smaller than we thought it was
Measurements of sound waves passing through the sun seem to confirm that it isn’t as big as we thoug...
Swarm of robots can make collective decisions by i...
A group of small, simple robots can make a collective decision by exchanging infrared light signals ...
Ocean heat could supply essentially endless clean ...
An old idea to use ocean heat to generate clean electricity has long failed to gain traction, but th...
Crabs evolved to live away from the ocean up to 17...
Unlike most other animal groups that left the sea behind, crabs have done it many times throughout t...
Twin ocean climate anomalies may trigger heat and ...
A strong El Niño in the Pacific Ocean is coinciding with a similarly strong climate pattern in the I...
Spine stimulator lets man with severe Parkinson's ...
A man with Parkinson's disease who fell up to six times a day can now walk several kilometres withou...
The surprising life and avoidable demise of Earth’...
The antiquity, stability and weird chemistry of oases have made them cradles of evolution, yet human...
Left-handed people have a slight advantage in badm...
The shape of a badminton shuttlecock and the way it spins may give left-handed people an advantage f...
DNA vaccines coding for live viruses could soon be...
DNA vaccines would be much easier to store than mRNA alternatives and should be as effective as conv...
Eight healthy habits that could slow your rate of ...
Not smoking, exercising regularly and keeping your cholesterol in check could make your biological a...
Quantum batteries could charge better by breaking ...
Taking advantage of a quantum phenomenon called indefinite causal order could make quantum batteries...
Skull shows man survived surgery to ease brain pre...
A skull found in China shows signs of healing after part of it was removed 2700 years ago, suggestin...
Stunning image of South America's largest lake hid...
Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, the largest lake in South America, has been captured in detail by the E...
Postcard from Earth review: Amazing visuals can’t ...
It’s not Black Swan or The Wrestler. Darren Aronofsky’s Postcard from Earth is visually stunning wit...
