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Ants treat their own fungal infections by eating a...
Silky ants with a fungal infection favour food containing aphids, which are a source of hydrogen per...
Anemones are first known animals to follow the sun...
Snakelocks anemones are the first known “heliotropic” animals – their tentacles point towards the su...
Covid-19 rebound affects 1 in 5 people after takin...
Covid-19 rebound, when the virus increases in the body after initially decreasing, affected just und...
How AI avatars of the deceased could transform the...
Companies are now offering chatbots that appear to come from beyond the veil. But psychologists say ...
Iceland volcano: 15km magma tunnel under town thre...
A 15-kilometre-long mass of lava has formed underneath the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland and could ...
DeepMind AI can beat the best weather forecasts - ...
By using artificial intelligence to spot patterns in weather data, Google DeepMind says it can beat ...
AI can steal passwords in virtual reality from ava...
Artificial intelligence can work out what someone is privately typing in VR meetings in Meta Horizon...
One-time CRISPR treatment could permanently lower ...
A small trial of a cholesterol-lowering treatment based on CRISPR gene editing has produced promisin...
Will global warming continue even after we hit net...
Understanding how the atmosphere responds to rising and falling carbon emissions is a complex busine...
A comet wagged its tail as it flew past the sun
The tail of comet Erasmus swung back and forth during its closest approach to the sun, probably beca...
Robotic chemist discovers how to make oxygen from ...
A chemistry robot analysed meteorite samples and tested a range of catalysts, demonstrating a possib...
Women in the US outlive men by 6 years – the large...
Men are living shorter lives than women in the US, a widening gap largely driven by deaths due to co...
Just leaving trees to grow could store a third of ...
Simply allowing existing trees to grow to maturity could theoretically suck billions of tonnes of ca...
Fresh ideas about the causes of acne are bringing ...
We are finally working out what happens to the skin and gut microbiome when someone gets acne, givin...
Read an extract from Julia by Sandra Newman
This chilling extract is from Sandra Newman's retelling of George Orwell's dystopian classic, 1984, ...
Self-driving car-makers could face prison for misl...
The UK's Automated Vehicles Bill would make it a criminal offence for car-makers to use certain mark...
Metal pollution may be skewing the sex ratio of se...
Some sea turtle populations have become skewed towards females because of climate change, and now it...
Weight loss-drug Wegovy can avert heart attacks - ...
The latest set of heart disease results seen with using Wegovy to treat obesity could help swing med...
