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US states had 65,000 rape-related pregnancies afte...
Estimates suggest that there were tens of thousands of pregnancies as a result of rape between July ...
Syphilis-like bacteria found in 2000-year-old huma...
Four skeletons in a prehistoric burial site in Brazil contain the DNA of bacteria that are closely r...
Fungi grow faster if you play sounds to them
Fungi exposed to acoustic stimulation in lab experiments have faster growth rates, suggesting a poss...
Why is the US still in such poor health, despite i...
A decade ago, a study showed that the US had the lowest life expectancy among high-income countries....
Electricity demand from data centres set to double...
The world needs more data centres to support internet activity and the AI boom. That could double th...
Four new emperor penguin colonies have been discov...
Satellite images have helped to locate four previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins in the A...
A bacterium switches from prey to predator when it...
Growing up at a different temperature seems to transform common prey bacteria into predators, sugges...
Reversing type 2 diabetes is much harder than clin...
People with type 2 diabetes who take part in clinical trials may benefit from professional weight lo...
See what the world looks like through the eyes of ...
A camera can recreate how animals see the world through both visible and ultraviolet light
Huge amounts of rock dust are being spread across ...
Companies around the world are spreading crushed rocks on farms to remove carbon dioxide from the at...
A new understanding of how your blood type influen...
We now know that there are at least 45 different blood types and that yours may influence your risk ...
Seaweed could save a billion people from famine af...
A nuclear war could lead to food shortages due to soot blocking out the sun, but a model suggests se...
Do routine check-ups actually improve our health?
A massive study is claimed to show that regular primary care health checks can prevent multiple dise...
Chickpeas grown in moon dust for the first time
With a little help from a fungus and earthworms, chickpeas have been grown in lunar soil. It is a st...
Stunning slo-mo videos show how insects survive ra...
A raindrop can weigh 40 times as much as a water strider. So how does the insect deal with rain when...
How measles can do long-lasting damage to children...
Low vaccination rates have led to measles outbreaks in several countries, but many people are unawar...
A legendary cosmologist on how to find a deeper th...
Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles, who helped create our model of how the universe evolved, discusses da...
AI costs too much to automate vision-related jobs ...
Today’s AI computer vision costs are too steep for most US firms to consider replacing human workers...
