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A type of vitamin B3 might treat chronic pain rela...
Chronic pain can outlast inflammation, the usual driver of pain in the body – a study in mice sugges...
Rainforest loss in South-East Asia could extend El...
Climate models suggest that deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia will cause feedback loops that c...
A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark...
The enduring mystery of dark matter has led some physicists to propose that it was forged in a disti...
Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts...
Nature has retracted the scientific paper that claimed earlier this year that the wonder material kn...
Why is Canada's assisted dying policy in the globa...
Medically assisted dying was behind more than 4 per cent of Canada's deaths last year, but uptake is...
How Jupiter's powerful storms compare to weather o...
From the Great Red Spot to the extreme jet stream, Jupiter’s weather is intense, but that's nothing ...
Just 3.5 minutes of intense activity a day may kee...
A few minutes a day of intense physical activity, which can come from everyday chores, is linked wit...
When to see Venus disappear behind the moon for it...
Venus will vanish behind the moon for about an hour in the morning of 9 November in Europe, western ...
Newfound moon around asteroid Dinkinesh is actuall...
When NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past the asteroid Dinkinesh, it found an unexpected satellite – but...
Rising humidity has boosted storm potential in nor...
Over the past 40 years, rising humidity means the atmospheric conditions that trigger severe storms ...
Orcas sink another sailboat as a bewildering wave ...
Orcas have been damaging or sinking boats in the Strait of Gibraltar for the past few years and we d...
Will the cannabis of the future be brewed in big v...
We can now synthesise THC, CBD and other cannabinoids in bioreactors – these could be used to make n...
Drug that cuts breast cancer risk set for wider us...
An oral medicine called anastrozole has been approved by the UK's drug regulatory agency for reducin...
Rats squeak with happiness when they are with anot...
Rats emit a high-pitched squeak when around another rat, seemingly just to express a positive emotio...
Sweeteners: The bitter truth about low-calorie sug...
Low-calorie sweeteners such as aspartame have become common in all our diets. With concerns over the...
Can we smash together all of the asteroids to buil...
The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planet, so on this episode o...
Euclid space telescope releases its first stunning...
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has released five of its first science images, in...
The sun is smaller than we thought it was
Measurements of sound waves passing through the sun seem to confirm that it isn’t as big as we thoug...
