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Microturbines can generate electricity from drinki...
Water pipes offer a largely untapped source of renewable electricity that could provide 1.4 gigawatt...
Workplace well-being initiatives don't boost emplo...
The mental health of people who undertake mindfulness or meditation courses offered by their employe...
Prototype rocket engine burns itself up for fuel a...
After a rocket uses up its fuel, the tank generally just becomes dead weight, but a prototype rocket...
NASA is delaying its Artemis missions to the moon
NASA’s Artemis II and Artemis III missions to the moon have been delayed by a year after a series of...
Mysterious radio burst came from group of galaxies...
The Hubble Space Telescope has pinpointed the origin of the most distant known fast radio burst, whi...
Fire ants form rafts that have weird properties wh...
Fire ants link together to form rafts when their nests are flooded, and unlike most materials the ra...
6 exquisite images from Close-up Photographer of t...
A moray eel, a robber fly and an ice-topped slime mould appear in winning images from the Close-Up P...
AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per c...
Researchers used AI to design a new material that they used to build a working battery – it requires...
We’re finally working out why the Mediterranean di...
We have known for decades that the Mediterranean diet lowers the risk of heart attack and other cond...
‘Islands’ poking out of black holes may solve the ...
Measuring “entanglement islands” that contain copies of information that black holes have lost could...
Why moon missions in 2024 could reveal both our hi...
Several moon missions are planned for 2024, including some that will attempt to mine for ice on the ...
2023 was officially the hottest year on record
The global average temperature for 2023 was 1.48°C warmer than the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average,...
Star cluster is heading for destruction at the hea...
The closest star cluster to the centre of the Milky Way we have seen seems to be falling in, which c...
It might rain diamonds on more than 1900 exoplanet...
It may be easier than researchers thought to form diamonds inside giant planets, which means that it...
The Peregrine lunar lander may not make it to the ...
After its 8 January launch aboard a Vulcan rocket, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander has experienced a f...
Extreme droughts are worse for plants than we thou...
Grasslands are almost 40 per cent less productive after a year of extreme drought, an experiment spa...
There can be 240,000 plastic particles in a litre ...
Own brand one-litre water bottles from three unnamed US supermarkets each contained hundreds of thou...
Animal bones ground into an edible paste could hel...
A Finnish start-up has developed a method of grinding up chicken or fish bones into a nutritious pas...
