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We’ve just realised that a tiny West African croco...
Audio recordings reveal that the African dwarf crocodile moos like a cow – and listening out for its...
These are the next comets that will be visible in ...
Three comets named Hartley, Encke and Tsuchinshan will pass by the sun in the next few months and be...
Waste plastic can be recycled into hydrogen fuel a...
Using waste plastic to produce a combination of hydrogen and graphene could make it profitable and g...
Students search desert for lost rocket after attem...
KSP’s chairman Shapol M says he is nervous but confident ahead of the launch. "The rocket is going t...
Male butterflies plug attractive females’ genitals...
Some male butterflies insert a stopper into their mate’s reproductive tract – and they use bigger, m...
Read an extract from The Seventh Son by Sebastian ...
This intriguing extract is taken from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks, the latest pick for our N...
Sebastian Faulks: ‘Homo sapiens is a very odd crea...
The award-winning novelist Sebastian Faulks on how he came to set his new novel The Seventh Son – th...
Super-heatproof computer memory survives temperatu...
A kind of computer memory made from the semiconductor scandium aluminium nitride withstands extreme ...
Alan Turing mathematically predicted the colour of...
Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, once put his mind to the subject of predicting c...
US telehealth start-ups are booming – they may put...
A slew of telehealth startups in the US market themselves as convenient ways to access healthcare, b...
We finally know what makes orange carrots orange
Three genes are turned off to make carrots produce high levels of alpha and beta-carotene, which mak...
Raisins and nuts dance in fizzy drinks and now we ...
Dropping raisins, nuts or other small objects in a fizzy liquid makes them dance up and down for hou...
Jet fuel made with captured CO2 and clean electric...
Several companies are beginning to scale up production of jet fuel made from captured carbon dioxide...
Distant galaxies are gobbling up an unexpected amo...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the most distant galaxies are being...
Elusive Australian bat sometimes snacks on other b...
Australia’s greater broad-nosed bat was believed to mostly eat beetles and other insects, but hairs ...
Huge earthquake shook Seattle 1100 years ago and i...
Analysis of tree rings shows that two faults near Seattle, Washington ruptured at the same time or s...
Ancient baskets and shoes reveal skill of prehisto...
Well-preserved artefacts found in a Spanish cave show that advanced plant-based crafts were practise...
Having books in your Zoom background makes you see...
People come across as being more trustworthy and competent on Zoom calls if they have plants or book...
