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Bat uses its huge penis like an arm during sex
Video recordings reveal that penetration does not occur when serotine bats mate; instead males use t...
Cannabis addiction may be partly down to genetics
An analysis of genetic data from more than 1 million people shows that those with cannabis use disor...
How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, ...
Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that lived on in a world dominated by big-brained early humans....
Earth passes 2°C of warming on hottest day ever re...
The global average surface temperature was more than 2°C higher than pre-industrial levels on 17 Nov...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lands new job at Microsoft a...
The head of one of the world's leading AI companies was fired for not being 'candid' with the board,...
Lasers fired at crystals could uncover quantum nat...
Ultra-short laser pulses may allow us to measure entanglement in a way that answers questions about ...
How a dash of science can help bake the perfect eg...
To make a cake delightful even when eggs aren’t in attendance, it is important to account for all th...
The pandemic helped some children develop their vo...
Some preschool children in Canada scored higher on cognitive skills tests during the pandemic than t...
Electronic pill monitors your breathing and heart ...
A smart pill can accurately monitor your breathing and heart rate from inside your gut, which may be...
Time seems to slow down when you're high – why doe...
Cannabis does strange things to our sense of time passing, possibly by over-exciting neurons in a br...
Genital herpes linked to accelerated brain shrinka...
People who tested positive for the virus behind genital herpes tended to have reduced thickness of t...
How to watch the Leonid meteor shower peaking this...
The Leonids are known for their bright, fast-moving meteors. The shower will peak on 17 and 18 Novem...
Why so many prehistoric monuments were painted red...
Megaliths, or huge stones, were used for thousands of years to build monuments, and they were far mo...
Dancing monkey hormones shed light on harmful stre...
Stress hormone measurements highlight the poor welfare of monkeys trained to perform for the public ...
Vagus nerve stimulation may help treat drug addict...
Rats that received vagus nerve stimulation were less likely to seek out drugs than those that didn’t...
Cooling system could replace air con and drastical...
A heat-pump-like system that relies on a phenomenon called electrocaloric cooling could heat or chil...
Bonobos are friendly with those outside their grou...
The convivial nature of bonobos is in stark contrast to chimpanzees and may shed light on the evolut...
How the US and China talking AI safety could reduc...
At a meeting between US president Biden and China president Xi, there was agreement on the need for ...
