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Prehistoric people in Spain may have made tools fr...
The Cueva de los Marmoles cave in Granada, Spain, was used as a prehistoric human burial site. Resea...
Rishi Sunak's weakening of UK net-zero policy is a...
Cutting carbon emissions means replacing the heating systems in homes, transforming transport and gr...
Holly tree species not seen by scientists in 200 y...
No sightings of the Pernambuco holly tree had been confirmed since the species was first identified ...
Earliest evidence of buildings made from wood is 4...
We tend to think that ancient humans were constantly on the move, but at a site in Zambia there are ...
Brain damage linked to schizophrenia may spread as...
Brain scans show loss of tissue starting in small areas when people first experience psychosis, and ...
Silkworms genetically engineered to produce pure s...
Spider silk has been seen as a greener alternative to artificial fibres like nylon and Kevlar, but s...
How dark matter-powered stars could solve a huge c...
Astronomers say they have spotted evidence of stars fuelled by the annihilation of dark matter parti...
UK's Online Safety Bill to become law, but can it ...
After years of political wrangling, wide-ranging online rules are about to become UK law - but compl...
Vaccine that erases immune memory may help treat m...
An experimental vaccine that erases the immune system’s memory of a molecule could be used to stop a...
The entire brain may be involved in language, not ...
Brain regions identified as “language centres” are actually hubs that coordinate the processing of l...
Watch a cyborg cockroach navigate a maze
Remote-controlled cockroaches are not a new idea, but now researchers have found a way to steer the ...
Stick insects that are normally asexual may occasi...
Some animals reproduce asexually by creating embryos from unfertilised eggs, but this can lead to a ...
Extinct Tasmanian tiger yields RNA secrets that co...
RNA, which regulates the activity of DNA, is a crucial part of building an organism - and now resear...
Theory of consciousness branded 'pseudoscience' by...
A leading theory about consciousness called the integrated information theory has been attacked in a...
Rare Australian pink diamonds emerged when a super...
Understanding how the world’s largest-known collection of pink diamonds came to the surface in Austr...
DeepMind AI can predict if DNA mutations are likel...
By working out which small mutations will probably be damaging, DeepMind’s AlphaMissense system coul...
Catastrophic Libyan dam collapse partly caused by ...
Recent extreme rainfall that caused flooding across the Mediterranean and contributed to the catastr...
The seismic shift in attitudes toward cannabis exp...
As popular discussion of cannabis has moved away from the drug trade and toward potential medical ap...
