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Why the next solar eclipses are a unique chance to...
North America will see a hybrid solar eclipse on 14 October and a total eclipse in April 2024. Scien...
Beetles raise their young in trash dumps left behi...
Breeding beetles belonging to dozens of species are attracted to the piles of food waste left behind...
Surge of Russian tankers in the Arctic is raising ...
This year has seen an unprecedented number of Russian oil tankers in Arctic waters, increasing the r...
The best new science fiction books of October 2023...
From an authorised sequel to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to a collection of newly discovere...
Adding nanofridges to quantum computers could make...
Some of the components in quantum computers must be reset between operations, slowing down calculati...
Hollow nanoparticles linked by DNA make unusually ...
Particles that are too small to be assembled into materials with conventional methods can be bound t...
Mysteries of the endocannabinoid system and how we...
The cell signalling network in our bodies that helps cannabis get us high is also vital to many othe...
Unlocking the mysteries of the body's system that ...
The endocannabinoid system that helps cannabis get us high is also vital to many other aspects of ou...
We’ve just realised that a tiny West African croco...
Audio recordings reveal that the African dwarf crocodile moos like a cow – and listening out for its...
These are the next comets that will be visible in ...
Three comets named Hartley, Encke and Tsuchinshan will pass by the sun in the next few months and be...
Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel a...
Using waste plastic to produce a combination of hydrogen and graphene could make it profitable and g...
Students search desert for lost rocket after attem...
KSP’s chairman Shapol M says he is nervous but confident ahead of the launch. "The rocket is going t...
Male butterflies plug attractive females’ genitals...
Some male butterflies insert a stopper into their mate’s reproductive tract – and they use bigger, m...
Read an extract from The Seventh Son by Sebastian ...
This intriguing extract is taken from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks, the latest pick for our N...
Sebastian Faulks: ‘Homo sapiens is a very odd crea...
The award-winning novelist Sebastian Faulks on how he came to set his new novel The Seventh Son – th...
Super-heatproof computer memory survives temperatu...
A kind of computer memory made from the semiconductor scandium aluminium nitride withstands extreme ...
Alan Turing mathematically predicted the colour of...
Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, once put his mind to the subject of predicting c...
