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Neanderthals hunted cave lions with spears and mad...
Fossilised remains of extinct big cats called cave lions display evidence of butchery, showing that ...
Inventions based on threatened animals like rhinos...
An analysis of patent records suggests there is growing commercial interest in products derived from...
Toys produce far more electronic waste than vapes
Over 3 billion kilograms of valuable electronics inside children’s toys are thrown away each year, a...
Samples from asteroid Bennu contain the key ingred...
The asteroid Bennu was sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission, which returned to Earth last month. Res...
Earth’s core is oddly squishy and we may now know ...
Earth’s iron-rich inner core may owe some of its surprising softness to the motion of atoms, suggest...
Two giant planets collided and vaporised in a dist...
A star behaving strangely was the first clue that astronomers were witnessing two Neptune-sized plan...
Climate change may be improving the quality of Bor...
An analysis has found that Bordeaux wines made in years with wet winters and hot, dry summers – whic...
The quantum experiment that could help find eviden...
Scars of collisions with other universes could show up in radiation from the big bang. A new experim...
Going Infinite review: Who is Sam Bankman-Fried?
A profile of “crypto king” Sam Bankman-Fried has been rushed out as his fraud trial starts in the US...
London's drying rivers threaten the city's drinkin...
Poor river management means that London is number nine in the list of global cities most likely to r...
Mysterious Viking queen may have helped unify Denm...
Queen Thyra, the mother of King Harald Bluetooth, was commemorated on four runestones in different p...
Female frogs sometimes play dead to avoid mating w...
Frog mating can be a competitive and sometimes deadly affair as many males compete for females – but...
Winning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Y...
Orcas hunting a seal, duelling Nubian ibexes and a stunning horseshoe crab appear in winning images ...
World’s largest offshore wind farm sends first pow...
The Dogger Bank offshore wind farm is located off England’s north-east coast and has begun generatin...
Slicing the moon in half would be disastrous for E...
The moon can be a scourge for astronomers, so the Dead Planets Society has figured out how to destro...
Driving under the influence of cannabis: How high ...
Driving under the influence of cannabis increases the risk of traffic accidents, but despite plenty ...
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next...
Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already un...
Chickens made resistant to bird flu with CRISPR ge...
Modifying a protein in chicken cells can help the birds resist infection by influenza viruses, but f...
