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Centipede robots with more legs are better at walk...
A series of centipede-inspired robots with different numbers of legs show that the more legs a robot...
Locusts produce an odour to try to put other locus...
The crop-devastating swarms that locusts form are driven in part by the insects' tricks to avoid bei...
Ancient bacteria genome reconstructed from Neander...
Researchers pieced together the genomes of two unknown species of green sulphur bacteria from DNA fr...
Gannets' blue eyes turn black after an infection w...
Black irises have been spotted in gannets that test positive for bird flu antibodies, suggesting the...
Electronic cochlea adjusts to noise levels like a ...
A tiny microphone designed to replicate the way sound is processed in the inner ear could be used in...
Extreme rainfall could lead to 'big disaster' for ...
Heavy rain triggered by climate change is forecast to reduce rice production in China by 8 per cent ...
New drug donanemab slows cognitive decline in earl...
The experimental treatment donanemab is now the second antibody drug to slow cognitive decline in pe...
The science of the weight loss and diabetes drugs ...
From how well they work to side effects such as hair loss, here’s the skinny on new weight loss inje...
Brain surgery before birth fixes abnormal artery i...
A vein of Galen malformation is a condition that can place pressure on a fetus’s heart and lungs and...
Material that sends sound from water to air could ...
Sound can't normally travel from beneath water's surface to the air above due to a mismatch in densi...
California's electric car boom reduces emissions –...
A programme to increase electric vehicle adoption in California increased air pollution in lower-inc...
We've seen a star devouring a planet for the first...
In a preview of what’s to come for Earth in about 5 billion years, astronomers have spotted a sun-li...
Movie clip reconstructed by an AI reading mice's b...
Researchers have put together a 30-second movie clip based on a group of mice's brain activity data ...
Decades-old mystery about photosynthesis finally s...
It takes just four particles of light to jump-start photosynthesis in a plant’s cells, but the detai...
DNA from 25,000-year-old tooth pendant reveals wom...
A new technique for extracting DNA from ancient artefacts without destroying them could give us unpr...
Woolly mammoths had testosterone surges like those...
Hormone measurements from the tusk of a male woolly mammoth show these animals went through musth, a...
These bizarre lights in the sky hint at a way to p...
Semi-mythical "earthquakes lights" may be accompanied by changes to Earth's magnetic field. Now rese...
Remnants of the universe's first stars may have be...
The first stars in our universe may have blown up in relatively weak supernovae, and astronomers bel...
