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Young cupboard spiders sometimes turn cannibal and...
Juveniles of a common household spider have been shown to eat their siblings in the lab, and they ar...
The ancient trees that have lessons for the future...
What we can learn from efforts to protect Tane Mahuta, a giant kauri tree in New Zealand, and Pando,...
What are the weirdest stars in the universe?
Exotic stars may be scattered throughout the cosmos, from boson stars that could look like black hol...
Hot ocean temperatures to fuel above-average Atlan...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now joins other forecasters in projecting an abo...
The most distant individual star ever seen may act...
The James Webb Space Telescope has made new observations of Earendel, the most distant single star e...
Muons are still behaving oddly, which could break ...
An experiment at Fermilab in the US suggests that muons rotate faster than expected, which would be ...
Cleaner shipping emissions may have warmed the pla...
The shipping industry has significantly reduced its sulphur emissions since 2020, and in doing so ha...
Plants find it harder to absorb carbon dioxide ami...
A modelling study suggests that increases in photosynthesis have slowed since 2000, opposing previou...
Plastic bags and bottles can be recycled into soap...
The plastics polyethylene and polypropylene, which are used in shopping bags, bottles and food packa...
China’s video-game limits haven’t cut heavy gaming...
The strict time limits China imposed on how long under-18s can spend playing video games had no effe...
Authors fear they have little defence against AI i...
Jane Friedman discovered that Amazon was selling five books under her name that she hadn't written, ...
Russia chases former Soviet glory with Luna 25 moo...
Russia's first lunar mission in nearly 50 years is designed to land near the moon’s south pole and i...
Wonky shapes can be made to roll along a specific ...
Objects called trajectoids can be 3D-printed to match a path so they can roll down it forever – and ...
AI can hear what you're typing over Zoom with 93 p...
An AI can detect what is being typed according to the sounds different keys make when being pressed ...
How to spot the 2023 Perseid meteor shower as it p...
The Perseids are a major meteor shower - here is your guide to spotting them during their peak on 12...
Ultra-processed foods have a bad reputation – is i...
The relationship between ultra-processed foods and health isn’t as clear cut as many make it seem, a...
LK-99: Mounting evidence suggests material is not ...
Following a flurry of replication attempts, the claim that LK-99 perfectly conducts electricity at r...
Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight is ab...
Galactic-02, Virgin Galactic’s first mission to carry paying civilian customers to space, is schedul...
