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The placebo effect means painkillers may work bett...
A painkilling nasal spray was better at relieving people's discomfort when it caused a mild burning ...
How bad is vaping for your health? We’re finally g...
As more of us take up vaping and concerns rise about the long-term effects, we now have enough data ...
Gesturing as you talk may help you speak a new lan...
Talking with your hands may help you stress the correct parts of words as you learn a new language
Roo-ver: Australia's first moon rover has name cho...
The Australian Space Agency is working on plans for its first moon rover, which will fly on an Artem...
We can trigger positive tipping points to cut carb...
Governments should be aiming to trigger technological, economic and social tipping points that accel...
Locusts spun in a centrifuge develop extra-strong ...
Spinning locusts in a centrifuge to mimic hypergravity seems to cause their exoskeletons to adapt, g...
Major climate tipping points could be triggered wi...
We are getting close to triggering irreversible changes that will have catastrophic effects worldwid...
Why reports that Western civilisation will soon co...
A scientific analysis of history reveals that societies are becoming more resilient to collapse – an...
Drug prevents fentanyl overdose for a month in mon...
A single dose of a novel antibody medication can bind to fentanyl and prevent the opioid from trigge...
Removing zombie-like cells may help treat multiple...
Senolytic drugs can clear away worn and damaged “zombie” immune cells that are resistant to dying, w...
2023 saw thrilling space missions and new cosmic m...
The past year gave us thrilling missions to Jupiter and the moon, stunning images that captured the ...
AI can tell which chateau Bordeaux wines come from...
A machine-learning algorithm was able to tell which estate 80 Bordeaux red wines came from with 100 ...
Shipwrecks are havens for wildlife in areas threat...
In areas of the sea affected by bottom trawling, marine life is more abundant in and around shipwrec...
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels hit ano...
Despite urgent calls to slash fossil fuel use to meet climate targets, the Global Carbon Budget repo...
Pregnant megamouth shark washed up on beach is fir...
A female megamouth shark was found in the Philippines with one pup alongside her and six fetuses ins...
Brain implant could ease the effects of a traumati...
A device that was implanted into the brains of people with traumatic brain injuries substantially im...
The roboticist who wants to bring AI into contact ...
Artificial intelligence may never reach its full potential without a body to interact with the physi...
China’s first underwater data centre is being inst...
To hold and cool computer servers, China has installed a 1300-tonne watertight cabin on the shallow ...
