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Painkillers seem to work better if you have unplea...
People found a nasal spray painkiller more effective when it caused a slight burning sensation. This...
Vaping vs edibles: How does the way we use cannabi...
Edibles, vapes and spliffs all contain the same psychoactive compounds but the effects they have on ...
How will we actually know when we pass 1.5°C of wa...
It looks likely that the world will pass 1.5°C of warming in the 2030s, but current climate definiti...
World must prepare for frequent and severe drought...
With climate change driving more intense dry spells, the world must invest in early warning systems ...
The best new science fiction books of December 202...
A novelisation of Zack Snyder’s film Rebel Moon, a new Star Wars novel and the much-anticipated seco...
Robot eel reveals how the strange fish swim so eff...
Tests with an eel-inspired robot show that the unusual fish may swim most efficiently by reducing th...
See a forgotten meteor shower caused by a dead com...
The Andromedid meteor shower is normally a quiet affair, but very occasionally it puts on an intense...
Marmosets swap brain cells with their siblings
Most marmosets have non-identical twins or triplets, which exchange blood cells while in the uterus ...
COP28: Energy transition may cut 60% of oil-produc...
Without more international support, the transition away from fossil fuels could have disastrous effe...
COP28: Energy transition may cut oil-producing sta...
Without more international support, the transition away from fossil fuels could have disastrous effe...
Bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields with...
Like platypuses and some sharks, bottlenose dolphins have an electric sense which they may use to na...
Chinstrap penguins take thousands of very short na...
While incubating their eggs, chinstrap penguins need to stay vigilant for predators – so they only s...
DNA repair has been captured in a step-by-step mol...
Researchers have worked out how a protein called photolyase repairs DNA using light, and their disco...
Tiny star found harbouring a huge planet that shou...
An enormous planet has been spotted orbiting a small star, and it could not have formed under either...
Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones...
A 17th-century hospital crypt in Milan, Italy, has yielded the first archaeological evidence of cann...
The music you should play at a party to ensure con...
It is easier to focus on conversations when background music is playing if the song is unfamiliar to...
Physicists have worked out how to pour water as qu...
The sound of pouring water into a cup can be tamped down by changing the height of the pour or the d...
COP28: How this year shattered nearly every modern...
The COP28 climate summit kicked off with a report on the many records broken in 2023, including unpr...
