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Fig trees may benefit climate by turning carbon di...
Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the...
Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned int...
A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that fores...
Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to di...
The growth of domestic solar installations opens the possibility of hackers targeting their smart in...
We finally understand why quasicrystals can exist
Not quite crystals and not quite a glass, quasicrystals are an oddity whose properties are not well ...
Quantum-enhanced supercomputers are starting to do...
Working in tandem, a quantum computer and a supercomputer modelled the behaviour of several molecule...
Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar...
Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar sys...
Carbon-offset schemes aren't prepared for forests ...
Forest-based carbon-offset projects need a buffer to guarantee their climate benefits will last – bu...
The 14 best science and tech documentaries of 2025...
From David Attenborough to Hannah Fry via Bryan Johnson, our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley selects he...
Energy drinks could cause less dental damage with ...
The acidity of drinks like Red Bull can erode dental enamel, but a lab experiment suggests this coul...
3D printing could enable a long-term treatment for...
Small, 3D-printed devices, designed to be implanted directly under the skin, could allow people with...
Quantum computers are surprisingly random – but th...
While randomising a deck of cards gets more difficult as you add more cards, it turns out that the s...
Do we grow new brain cells as adults? The answer s...
Scientists have found evidence of new brain cells sprouting in adults - a process that many thought ...
How vaccine recommendations have changed in the US...
The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted in June to stop recommending certain kinds...
Weird 'harmless' microbes may play a pivotal role ...
Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one spec...
Prehistoric Spanish people transported 2-tonne sto...
An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, ind...
Nighttime light exposure linked to heart disease i...
Light exposure at night may disrupt our body's internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, that keep phys...
The foolproof way to win any lottery, according to...
How can you guarantee a huge payout from any lottery? Take a cue from combinatorics, and perhaps gat...
Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from al...
A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containe...
