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California frog reintroduction is rare victory aga...
The success of a 15-year project to help frogs in California’s Sierra Nevada suggests some amphibian...
Some corals change sex each year so they can find ...
Nearly three-quarters of hammer coral colonies annually alternate between male and female. They are ...
Multiple sclerosis genes may have arisen to ward o...
An invasion of nomadic herders from the Eurasian steppe profoundly changed the genetic landscape of ...
Why huge ape Gigantopithecus went extinct up to 29...
The mysterious giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki died out up to 295,000 years ago, after failing to a...
Are there really freshwater manatees thriving deep...
Manatees or sea cows usually inhabit coastal waters, but rumour has it that some are hiding out in U...
How Bolivia’s gold rush is poisoning Indigenous co...
People who live along rivers in the Amazon basin have severe neurological symptoms and dangerously h...
NASA to unveil X-59 supersonic plane that makes a ...
The experimental X-59 aircraft is designed to break the sound barrier without making the startling b...
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 ...
