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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...
Diamond rain may be more common across the univers...
It may be easier than researchers thought to form diamonds inside giant planets, which means that it...
Should nations try to ban bitcoin because of its e...
Bitcoin miners seem unwilling to take action to curb the cryptocurrency's energy and water use – so ...
Christina Koch: ‘I come to work to do cool things ...
Christina Koch, who will become the first woman to go to the moon with the Artemis II mission, on wh...
Vulcan launch: Why is NASA going back to the moon?...
NASA has launched a robotic lander towards the moon in its first mission to the lunar surface since ...
The first Vulcan rocket launch will carry a privat...
The United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time on 8 January, c...
Robot with sense of touch grabs ocean trash withou...
An artificial skin that delivers a waterproof sense of touch could speed up underwater robotic explo...
AI sheds light on the ancient origins of England's...
An artificial intelligence model has unpicked some of the linguistic influences behind England's pla...
'This century is special': Martin Rees on the vast...
Cosmology has transformed our understanding of time past and the aeons to come, pointing to a deep f...
Why I explored the corrupting power of tech billio...
Naomi Alderman on the tech billionaires at the heart of her new novel The Future, the latest pick fo...
Read an extract from The Future by Naomi Alderman
In this tantalising extract from Naomi Alderman's new novel The Future, the latest pick for the New ...
Psychedelic drug helps treat PTSD and traumatic br...
Military veterans with traumatic brain injury saw drastic reductions in depression and symptoms of p...
Neptune isn't as blue as we thought it was
An analysis of photos taken by Voyager 2 in the 1980s shows that Neptune and Uranus have a similar p...
A renegade moon may have flipped Venus’s spin
Venus spins in the opposite direction to the other planets, which may have been caused by an ancient...
Notoriously complex material called 'plumber's nig...
An unusual material that consists of a complex jumble of intricately entwined tubes isn't much use o...
First working graphene semiconductor could lead to...
Researchers have created a functional semiconductor from graphene for the first time, creating the p...
